The Continuing Adventures of HANDY HUBBY

Hubby is feeling very unappreciated because I haven't been putting up his recent (and not so recent) accomplishments.

So without further ado, handiness:

This is the bin on the back porch that we keep dry cat food in. I went out one day and found a neighbor cat hanging out of it with his head under the lid. A couple of days later I went out on the back porch and suddenly, the lid flew open, and the same cat jumped out. He had been inside eating. So Hubby rigged it with a "lock".

We used to run electricity out to the shop by this attractive method:

That is an extension cord coming out of the kitchen window. Hubby (in his Brawny Man outfit) wired up an electric box on the outside of the house.

Then he redid his set up down in the shop. Now you just walk in and flip a switch. And it is set up to make installing overhead lighting more manageable.

The construction people gave us a new gate. Only there was a fairly large gap between the gate and the house. A Haylie sized gap. If she was in the yard alone for more than 2 minutes, she would escape. Hubby fixed the problem by getting a matching post and cutting it down to size and attaching it to the gate post. Haylie was totally confounded and had to resort to trying to dig out under the gate in order to escape.

The short story with this one is I locked Surly Teenager's medicine in our bedroom while we had gone out of town. We told her to kick in the bedroom door. She did a really good job of it and didn't mess up the door at all, just ripped the trim and lock plate off, and cracked the jamb.

He fixed it and you can't even tell it was broken. (Sorry for the blurry. I am too lazy to go back and take it again. Trust me, it looks good.)

Last fall, we moved my mom out of her mobile home and into a senior living place. This entailed much hard work that included, among many other things, taking down the carport, tearing up the wheelchair ramp, and moving a storage shed.

AND on top of all of that hard work, he still occasionally takes time to help with the dishes.

He's such a hard worker. I am very lucky to have him.