We have a limited crew back in the shop as we finish the last days of 2024. Since the two youngest grandkids are still off school, they joined us. June determined it would be fun to use the giant shop vice to crush the entire bin of empty soda cans - one at a time. Henry was especially eager to give me a hand hooking up a new air dryer to the ShopSabre router (using his tools, of course.) But as always, it wasn’t long until he thought that his time was better spent doing something else that had caught his eye. Henry decided he would use the shop vacuum to pick up the dust in the router room. He didn’t stay on the floor (where most of the sawdust was) for very long. It was much more fun to clean off the giant CNC router. Before long, he had vacuumed all of what he could reach. I boosted him and the vacuum up onto the tabletop, and he sucked up all the dust he could find until quitting time. While I could have blasted the dust off the machine with an air hose in seconds, allowing him to do the task his way made perfect sense to both of us. After finishing, we both took the time to admire the wonderful job he had laboured so hard to achieve.