Boat Shoes

The kids were doing some cleaning today (I had to make a Rural King run to get some stuff for the cows).  Most of them were working in the basement, but Garrett wanted to clean his room.  Once in a while he gets into a whirlwind cleaning frenzy, and today was one of those days.  Anything in his way gets put away or swept or cleaned - very quickly and thoroughly. (It is really hard to put it into words, just something you have to see, but picture him taking off the couch cushions and throwing them on the floor, grabbing the broom and giving the entire couch a sweeping, then putting the cushions back on the couch all in about a minute using a broom twice the size as he is. It is just something he occasionally does, not something you can talk him into, unfortunately. :)  Anyway, back to his bedroom cleaning today... He came out to inform Laura that he was dusting all of his shoes because they had cow pies all over them and he wanted them to be clean.  A few minutes later, he came out to the kitchen where she was washing dishes and tried to get down the vegetable brush.  "What do you need the vegetable brush for?" "I'm cleaning off the shoes in the bathtub."  "Oh."  She went back to the bathroom to investigate.  There were several shoes bobbing around in the half filled bath tub - and not all of the water had stayed in the tub.   When he started using the screwdriver on his new pocket knife (yes his Dad did decide he was old enough to be able to handle a pocket knife)  to "straighten" the outlet covers, Laura decided he would be better off with the rest of the cleaning crew in the basement...