Lending a hand on the Rocky Road

Carolyn's nephew Patrick, who lives near Boise Idaho, is traveling a rocky road.  He was in the  process of completely renovating a house that he and his family were going to move into when he fell from a second story doorway (deck not yet installed) and shattered both ankles and heels.  He is out of action for many weeks and unable to complete the new house and assist in the move into it.  Carolyn and I volunteered to drive over and help where we could. 

So Tuesday, Feb 14, I loaded a bunch of my tools into the van and we drove over to Idaho. 

Tools in the Van

When we got to Patrick's house we fond him in this condition:

We are staying at a local motel, and today we woke to these conditions:

Our first day working on the new house was spent getting groceries so Carolyn can make dinners for the family, and then we went out to the house and installed drawer pulls and cabinet door handles on all the cabinets throughout the house.  Carolyn measured and marked while I drilled and installed. 

Makes me kind of nervous working on somebody else's house, but we got perfect alignment of the door handles and drawer pulls



In the evening after dinner we helped take a load of household goods and furniture over to the new house and were back to the motel by 9:30 pm.