And the Wall Came Tumbling Down (Not a Lot)

[Diana E. Backhouse]

(I thought it was about time I gave an explanation for one of the  six about me challenge)

 

It isn’t just the more feminine pursuits in which I’ve been involved in this life of mine when it appears that what I have done is ‘not a lot’. Apart from fetching and carrying, I have mixed endless tons of concrete and mortar by hand, some of it whilst heavily pregnant, before we eventually purchased a cement mixer, this after I had ferried wheelbarrow loads of sand and bags of cement from the builders down the road. Over the years I have lost count of the amount of rubble I have shifted and the number of bricks that I have chipped clean of old mortar.
Probably the most impressive bit of D.I.Y. was the day that I knocked down a dividing wall in the house while my husband was out at work; by the time he arrived home I had cleared away all the blocks, mortar and plaster; if my memory serves me right, he said something like, “Good God, woman, what have you done!”.
I’ve helped to lift many a heavy beam, window and door surround into place, but refuse to do this any more since my hip replacement. I have tried my hand at bricking and plastering but my husband is so good at these things that I’ve not done a lot.

[Diana E. Backhouse]

Teresa - we could never afford the 'professionals'. We 'do' out of necessity.

Grey - my hubby had talked about removing the wall and would have got around to it eventually. I just got on and did it.

Khaalidah - thanks.

 

[Angela]

Do I hear an echo?? Good God woman!!

[Teresa]

A woman after the heart I wish I had. I'm afraid to mess things up so I hire "professionals".  I bow to thee...

[Diana E. Backhouse]

Cita, I've never thought of my sister-in-law as a catalyst. Hmm! Interesting concept.

[Cita]

Ah, very  often we need a catalyst to tell our stories.  And the story is the thing.

[Diana E. Backhouse]

I have her to thank as well because it has made me look at myself in a different light.

[bolton carley]

sometimes them fightin' words get the brilliance out. :)

[Diana E. Backhouse]

Bolton, I would probably never have written about what I have done if my sister-in-law hadn't told her daughter that I had not done a lot with my life. Until then I just got on quietly with my life. You have her to thank for these glimpses into my life.

[bolton carley]

you haven't "done a lot"?  that sounds like my mom who built my loft for college, can lay carpet, and drove the combine for my dad, but says she's just another person.  whatever.  love these glimpses into your real life.

[Diana E. Backhouse]

But I bet you weren't pregnant at the time, Stephen.