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Well MY DAD built 6 houses with his!

Ok, so I joke. But my Dad flipped houses when flipping wasn’t cool.

And I smile. I have, and STILL USE, the folding ruler.

My Dad installed septic tanks, built a huge boat house....here’s a memory.....One day while looking through the Montgomery Ward catalogue I saw a “desk” nailed to a wall. Now it wasn’t a desk with legs. It was a cabinet type of affair. It had a “door” that opened to become the desktop, then could close and click with shelves for papers and slots for folders stored within.

It was , and still is, I still have it, clever as all get out. So I showed it to my Dad and asked if he could build me one.

Sure enough it was built, painted (I did all the painting in the house) and hanging smartly on the wall the next day.

BUT BETTER THAN THAT...my Dad loved that thing so much he built one for every room in our house.

Heh.

He did a great job, built five houses, one had no indoor bath (that was the famous farm), one was on the Chesapeake Bay....that had the gorgeous boathouse, two piers under cover, adored and beloved by the kingfishers. He bought that house for $5,000 and sold it to me for $107,000. I sold it fifteen years ago to move to Delaware for $220,000.

Wild.