My New Handyman

Our summer has been busy with lots of travel and visitors, work and volunteering, projects around the house and yard work.  We’ve ushered at Tuacahn a half dozen times, chaired the ward Pioneer Day Picnic at Pine Valley, bottled the harvest from our garden and socialized with many family and friends – all in our usual triple digit Dixie summer weather.  In the middle of it all and as part of our ongoing efforts to update our 22+ year old house, Ed checked into hiring a craftsman to lay tile in our three bathrooms and the laundry room.  The cost was exorbitant so he decided to do it himself!  With absolutely no experience but with good advice from Stacy’s husband Rick and our son David on laying out the 12” tiles, he dove into the project.  I must admit I was very skeptical.  He has always been a “suit” so I just couldn’t imagine he could successfully turn into a tradesman … but despite the effort of getting up and down a hundred times and having aching knee joints, he did a wonderful job and our bathrooms and laundry room now look amazing!  In addition, we saved more than $1000 in labor!  Not bad for a retired banker whose hue and cry is always, “I’d rather be golfing!”