Recently my mother asked me to build her a birdhouse, and in the spirit of “Everything We Need is Here”, I decided to look around my workshop and see what I had to use instead of heading out to Home Depot.  The MacGyver Theme soon popped into my head as I raced around the garage, yard, and workshop collecting materials to construct a birdhouse from.  Unused Mahogany floorboards, once ripped in the table saw,  made up the sides and bottom.  I didn’t have a dowel for the post for the bird to stand on, so I used a twig from in the yard.  The roof was made out of scraps from a previous project which was 50+ year old cedar slats from my Grandfather’s fence.  And lastly, I needed a bracket to hold up the birdhouse on the tree.  I didn’t have a metal bracket to begin with, and I was about to just go out and get one, but at the last minute remembered one spot I didn’t check for supplies: the wood pile dedicated for burning.  Voila, there it was!  A perfectly sized Y-shaped stick, and it then it was complete.  A 2 hour project, using all scraps and materials from other projects, and it even looks decent.

Everything I needed was here…and there…and over there too…but it all came together nicely.  Instant birdhouse!