So one day my brother came for a visit and he brought some junk along that he thought I might like. Among those things was an old milk can. He said maybe I could use it as a planter, and I did. But it took too much dirt and was hard to plant in with that narrow neck.
So one day I decided that if I cut the top off it would make a better (if less interesting) planter.
But then I was more interested in the top than the bottom and wondered what I could do with the top. I pondered this for a while and remembered that I had made a lamp out of bricks and wasn't real happy with the crumby dime-store lamp shade I had found in the attic for that so...
Lucky my wife is so tolerant of my dumb ideas