Charlie; This Is For You

When I lived in the UK, many's a day Charlie and I would find ourselves rumminating over a DIY problem, often with a beer in hand and some Tiger Woods golf on the Playstation or Xbox in obeyance until we were done. Everything from building summer houses for my then MIL, to erecting fences in his garden to simple painting and decorating, although we tended to do the simple stuff in our separate ways.

As I have been working on this house, I have often wished for his assistance or support, if nothing else, a fresh pair of eyes. I miss the spare hand, the common sense approach but most of all I miss the camaraderie.

So when I was working on these new doors, replacing the horrible old, brown stained, flat, hollow cores, with some nice 6 panel, foam core versions, with brushed nickel hardware, I thought of Charlie. Particularly when I left the door standing in the opening for a minute to get a tool, and it fell through into the room, landing on Addison's new fan, and her toy chest, although fortunately there was no permananent damage to anything.

I took this picture here to show how badly square the house is. Again I thought of Charlie with his older house, as I am sure he has come up against this challenge many times. Believe it or not, the door is plumb, level and square, but look at the top left corner compared to top right and/or to bottom left, to see just how badly out of whack the opening is. I really hope the trim work will hide it!