Can only be mad so long....then work it out.
11-28-2010, 01:18 PM
#36
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Originally Posted by mmonohon
My dh asked his dad to make me an ironing board cover like the tutorial I found here on the board. He had the instructions and pictures to go by with a little help from my hubby. (His father tinkers with woodcrafts and is only a basic lite hobby craftsman and my dh doesn't know the difference between a flathead and a phillips ----they try.) Anyway I got the board back from my father in lae and it is 4 times thicker then it should be and 12 inches too long. It is so heavy I can barely move it by myself and it was bending the old regular ironing board legs. I grew up in a home with men (thank God) and on a farm and took wood shop, so after being upset and knowing that they tried.....I came to the conclusion that if I saw off the 12 inches and put in on top of a sturdy small bookshelf I own and bolt in down that I can make it work.
I am truly thankful it will work and that they tried. But when will they learn to follow directions. Ugh!
I am truly thankful it will work and that they tried. But when will they learn to follow directions. Ugh!
11-28-2010, 01:24 PM
#37
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
Originally Posted by jemma
never learn -thats why women are so adaptive they have to be
Jan in VA
11-28-2010, 06:12 PM
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Gee, am I ever fortunate. My DH is fairly quick to do my bidding, (and I his,) and we work well as a team. I can anticipate his need, handing him the correct tool before he asks. We're like a surgeon and scrub nurse. If he sees a possible modification, he runs it by me, the wheels turn, consider, and approve or disapprove. Then we go to the hardware store together. On those rare occasions when I have to remind him of something, I only mention it three times be fore doing it myself. After that, I would consider it nagging. Guess that's why we've been married 37 years.
11-28-2010, 06:54 PM
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My DH can fix anything and has made me a design wall and large ironing board. We did wood crafts together for 15 years, he cut wood and I painted it. But he does try to complicate things instead of keeping it simple like I want. He wants it bigger, stronger. But I can't complain, he's great. (We have been married almost 47 years and the first 20 he was in the Navy).
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