Good neighbors and all that

My apologies. I haven't been posting as prolifically the past week and a half because I have been working on a Robert Frost-like project -- I've been replacing our old backyard fence, section by section.

But book/daddy, you say, fence building with your bad shoulder? Dare you? Exactly. I'm doing it carefully and slowly. Which explains my more-intermittent-than-usual book/daddy appearances lately.

November 21, 2006 3:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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By bookdaddy on November 21, 2006 5:46 PM

Thanks. People have often been surprised over the years to find that this theater critic, then book critic, built decks, sheds, fences, installed sinks and faucets and ceiling fans. I'm hardly a craftsman, but it does run in the family. My grandfather was a carpenter.

Jerome Weeks

By dick adler on November 21, 2006 5:06 PM

Hope your neighbors get the Frost reference. Lovely work, though...

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