A unique way of solving a problem.

We like to have "garden flags" outside of our house.  When my son was little, he fell in love with our neighbor's Snoopy flag and it always seems like a good, simple way to decorate for the seasons.

Unfortunately we lost our "Welcome Autumn Flag" because of some wind.  Even though we have a "flag hanger" the flag just worked it's way off and flew away.

My husband and I brainstormed for a solution.  Duct tape is often a good solution, but for something that's decorative, we didn't want it to distract and look junky in our front yard- or worse, get a note from our HOA (Home Owners Association).

In my profession, whether it being working around an animals behavior, or the fact that our patients can vary from 6 inches big to 4 feet high, we have to be adaptive.

The solution I came up with was getting a wine cork (not hard to find in our household) and taking a screw driver and starting an opening through it, and then put that on the end of the flag stand.  As one family member quipped, "wine saves the day- at all hours of the day."