When you live through all that there is much that you just take in stride (or suffer through- you pick), but when I read through Handyman’s account I started to remember just how hard he worked… and keeps working. We can say we were nuts, that we would not do this again if we had […]
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Greetings
Hi: I am finally posting here for the first time and find myself suffering from writer’s block! My name is ‘Handyman’, and my wife and I live in a 100+ year old farm house. I often say I live in a project, because after 21 years of being here, the projects are never ending. I […]
Kudos and Complaints
I had sort of s semi-complaint about my husband in the Garden Journal today, but immediately after posting I started to think, and realize we all have our negatives and positives. I was grousing a bit about how my children break tools, and my husband doesn’t have the disposition to train them to take care […]
Wedding Review
I didn’t realize that I had not posted the promised report on the wedding. It went beautifully, truly did -I’m not just saying that for a public audience. The flowers were too much work for two hands (I accomplished it, but wouldn’t recommend it), and the bridesmaid’s bouquets turned out to be exceptionally lovely. God blessed […]
Mad Dogs And Midwesterners
Now this is Midwestern summer. Hot, humid Fourth of July, hazy, and sunny weather. The kind that only mad dogs and ( forgive me, Englishmen) and Midwesterners dare to defy. Yep. We work in this weather, and lots of us don’t have airconditioning. Not on the full time basis of the South and SouthWest, anyway. […]
SlaveDrivers Anonymous
I don’t know how it is at other people’s houses, but at my house I am the idea person/slavedriver. That is right….. they run when they see me coming. All except that poor guy, AKA my husband, who has nowhere to run. So what is it this time? A new porch. I brainstormed this idea […]
