Little Things

I have been working on little improvements around our house here in Tucson. Little changes make a difference. I rehung a number of prints around the house that I thought were too high. I'm enjoying them more now. I asked our neighbor Bud from across the street for a consultation on some furniture problems and he helped fix them. Our drawers in our baker's rack were sticking. I misdiagnosed the problem--I thought they needed planing down. They just needed some soap along their tracks. Now we have functioning drawers. Bud also figured out what was wrong with our dining room table. We took out the leaf and the smaller table wouldn't close all the way. A piece of metal on the trim was interfering with it and needed to be bent out of the way. Now our table is better. It's great to have a new friend to help with some of life's problems, whether they are small or big.

Bud has lived all over the country. One of his longest stints was in Bellevue, which he enjoyed very much. We have traded stories on that. He seems Hawaiian to me, though. He loves to "talk story" like the natives there do. He's got some great ones. One of the pleasures of being retired is the time to get to know people and talk story with them without feeling like I have to be somewhere else.