30 Days of Thanks – 12

I’m grateful for the handy men in my life! Yesterday we had a new dresser delivered to our home. My husband had been using an old dresser that we finally sent off to fill up a guest room at my daughter’s new house. So, moving the dresser showed us the baseboard that had been damaged due to a water leak and the subsequent issues that caused. At the time the damage occurred we just put a dresser in front of it and forgot about it. Time passed. New dresser coming in. So what does my handy husband do? He got out his crowbar, pulled the old baseboard off, ran to our favorite home improvement store and bought a length of new baseboard to match. Got out his trusty miter saw and cut the board to the right length. Slapped a couple coats of paint on it, then took his air compressor and attached it to the nail gun and we were back in business. He loves this stuff. He comes from a long line of handy men. And so do I.

My dad is an incredibly handy guy, too. Therefore, it never occurred to me growing up, nor when I got married that people actually hired other folks to do this kind of work. Need a toilet moved and reseated? We do it. Need to replace a garbage disposal? No sweat. Over the years my hubby’s handy nature has saved us thousands of dollars. And made him happy in the process. I’ve told him he can retire and go back to work doing little things like that all day long.

Glad I am raising handy children, too!