I too arrived at the porch PB (pre-bio).
I had always been around tools, my dad being in the construction trade. He
ran a small business in Florida specializing in screened enclosures,
aluminum and fiberglass. We were never allowed to kill mosquitos, we just
shooed them over to the neighbor's, the one without the screened porch. I
worked summers. On hot days the pool looked inviting, 'till you remembered
that you were above it with a drill in one hand, a metal beam in the other
and your feet dancing on a 12 inch wide scaffold. We didn't have to worry
about the boys at OSHA, they'd have been crazy to come around where we
worked.
Fast forward 20+ years. Married (again), household repairs, etc., etc. Got
into antiqueing (in Georgia it's ok to turn nouns into verbs) with the
wife. One day, while flea marketing (see?) I happened into a stall with
tools. Walked out with a #8...$40...not pretty, but my first old tool.
Found out that I didn't really need that tailed jointer I was saving for.
Downhill since. Started receiving boxes from Ashby. I'd order a user and
wind up with something so spiffy it'd go on the shelf. He does that
ya'know.
Fast forward three years. Still working with my hands...at a keyboard.
Having just completed my twentieth year with the University System of Ga.,
I've begun thinking more and more about retirement. Gubment employees do
that, spend that last 6 - 10 years of their working life planning for
retirement. Mine is sure to include tools, old ones, and wood working, and
of course, the porch.
Ray...just say (tm/PL) if this porch ever need screening, lemme know.
Ray McCaleb
(706) 369-5678; FAX (706) 369-6429
ray_mccaleb@o...
Office of Information/Instructional Technology
Business and Finance Systems
University System of Georgia
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