The Birthday Present

My birthday is on Wednesday and Mike is driving me nuts. He's making me a birthday present and I have no idea what it is. He wouldn't own up to it at first. He really took it to extremes. I'd catch him sanding this little piece of wood in his office and I'd ask him what it was for, and he'd reply, "What wood? I don't know what you're talking about," even as he was holding it. On Sunday I asked him what he had been doing on Saturday night after I'd gone to sleep.

"It sounded really loud, like a grinder," I said.

"I don't have a grinder," he replied.

"But you do have a Dremel and other things," I said. He was silent. Later that day I heard the noise again and came into his office to see what he was up to and saw him using his jig saw to cut the wood.

"There, that's the noise! You were cutting something out!" I said.

"I'm not cutting anything out," he said.

I pointed to the wood.

Mike gasped. "Edison!" he said, staring at the little cat that had just entered the room. "Are you using my tools again, Ed? Are you building something?"

Now, however, he's owned up to the fact that the little piece of wood has to do with my present. In a way I wish he hadn't because trying to figure out what he's doing is making me crazy. Last night he let me study the wood for awhile so I could think of what the gift might be, and I couldn't come up with anything. The wood is very thin and lightweight, almost like balsa wood, and he cut it into a perfect circle about four inches across. He said it was something I wanted but I really can't think of anything that I requested that was wooden and round. My guess is that he's going to attach blinking LEDs to it somehow since he's been attaching blinking LEDs to a lot of things lately, but I'm not sure.

I can't wait until the 20th. I'll post a photo of whatever it is once it's done.