Watch your toolkit

No matter where you are it is important to keep an eye on your tools. The expensive ones often get stolen. Sometimes they get lost in space http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle. Other times, a little Beagle named Fred will go into your bag (he'd have gotten to it even if it had been zipped up) and slip out a screwdriver and gnaw that hard plastic handle to shreds. That's what he did the other day when Lee and Dutchie (not Deb's Dutch, the other Dutch) came to finish up a couple of things on the bathroom and the thermostat. Dutchie thought it was hysterical; of course, it wasn't his screwdriver. But Lee laughed, too. My dogs have grown accustomed to these fellas being here, and all of the guys have been so nice and patient with the dogs. They were well-behaved, but the guys working on the bathroom have had to be extra careful coming in and out of the house and ultra-aware of the things they leave laying about (much to Fred's chagrin). We're about done now. Bailey is going to miss hanging with the guys. If he was a 'real' boy he'd have helped them out every single day.