She’s happiest when she has a building project.

In our early years of marriage Sherry worked on our cars.

It was a cool winter morning, and getting cooler. It’s not often that we simply can’t do something or aren’t good at it (math, writing, public speaking, handy work, mechanics, etc.

Years later it dawned on me.). Generally, I wasn’t.”

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BARBER-OSOPHY: There’s a vast difference in “I can’t” and “I’m not interested. As we sometimes do when our masculinity seems in question, I did the manly thing and pouted.

When I arrived at the shop, the preceding thoughts and what follows became part of a conversation with a customer.

Now, if Sherry is doing something like building a fence I try to help. And, since I couldn’t do them, my ego was bruised. She was her daddy’s girl and he taught her well in such matters.

I also mentioned that, though I don’t have a clue about such handy work, Sherry does. So, she saved us money we really didn’t have. Then, we’re both happy. I pointed out that our home is bound on one side by a concrete drainage easement and that our yard work involved replacing a small wooden fence in the front yard along that easement. What I had previously thought of as “Sherry Water Cooled Condenser can” and “I can’t” (but ought to) was actually nothing more than her interest in something and my lack of interest. In fact, he even taught her how to do minor auto repairs. It would be very uncomfortable out and might make both of us sick. The clock radio had said it was supposed to be very cold for a few days.com is included.barber-osophy. If she’s doing something in which I feel Heat Pump Unit I’d just be in the way, I find something in which I have a greater interest – a good book.

So it is with many things in life that become the basis for self put-downs.

I thought that it was not ladylike for her to do such things. That morning, before I left for the barbershop, I told Sherry that maybe the yard work we had planned for the next few afternoons should be postponed. Those days, if it took fifty cents to go around the world we couldn’t have gotten out of sight.