Archive - 2013

Date

February 7th

of helping him with his various jobs.

but that’s what Dad had boys for. Using only shovels and a wheelbarrow

and the Saturday morning job stretched into a month of Saturdays

carpenter and cement worker.

toaster and any thing else that dared to not function.

carefully painted and displayed. Our garage strained to hold a greasy V-8.

repairing it using only a small collection of hand tools. No problem was too difficult. To get the engine pulled from the Ford

and let the chassis down. The beam creaked and sagged but the engine held

for example

he’d continue his paper route plus be available for any odd jobs that might come his way – replacing someone’s brakes or painting a living room. He’d work for money or barter. On at least one occasion

thanked us for our performance and appointed other students to continue delivering the cards. I don’t know how Eleanor felt about that

managed to be among the privileged few who got to perform that rare