Relative Something

When we got the message from Elysa that she could use some help with several home maintenance projects, Cyndie and I agreed to show up without hesitation. We packed up some tools and supplies and headed to the Cities.

I’m no carpenter but I have learned how to screw boards on a deck.

We decided to pull some boards off and flip them over as a temporary fix until a more permanent solution is figured out. The original screws were rusted almost to dust which made some easy to remove and others a real battle after the heads broke off.

While I finished putting in new screws to re-secure the boards, Cyndie helped with the removal of an unwanted bush.

Now you see it.

Now you don’t.

Next, I mounted new latch hardware on the back gate to the alley that will keep their dog from muscling his way out when the urge strikes.

Mission accomplished. Temporary fixes R us.

Somehow, I solved all the challenges of the various repairs without once resorting to using duct tape. Hopefully, the new screws hold.

It is an honor to be able to lend a hand when family is in need. Especially when I was just the beneficiary of help from Julian the day before, pounding down fence posts.

Doesn’t seem that long ago that I was shoulder to shoulder with them as little kids, looking out our master bedroom window in EP at a thunderstorm and striving to dispel anxieties over the flashing and booming. We made up a rating system to judge the impressiveness of the brilliant zig-zagging bolts and loudest booms of thunder.

Now we all face home-owner ‘adulting’ type problems. It’s nice to know we’ll never stop helping each other.

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