Why is that you ask? On Tuesday a number of large packages from Argos arrived at our doorstep, this was great except for some of what we purchased (dresser and desk) had the label "some assembly required." I knew I was in trouble when the dresser had a picture of two stick people, so being the diy wimp I am, I decided to deal with the desk first. This actually went quite well, my confidence soared as it all came together and even as I write the desk is placed in the corner of the office/2nd bedroom. Alas the bigger rectangular box stared me in the face, almost daring me to conquer it. for someone who is skilled at assembly this dresser would be a piece of cake, for someone who shy's away from that type of activity this dresser wouldn't be a piece of cake, more like a truckload of it. Anywhoo (spelling of a made up word, doesn't really matter does it?) I boldly took the pieces out of the large box on Friday with aspirations to tackle the project, unfortunately or fortunately I didn't get to it:), maybe this was my uninterest or simply the way the week worked out. Friday night we had Richard and Heather over, and when we toured them around the place the numerous panels, drawers, screws, bolts, etc... were all laid out neatly, just waiting to be manipulated. The angel known as Richard asked if I would like some help. This wasn't a rhetorical question he was offering his expertise to combine with my unexpertise (word?) and that seemed like a fabulous formula for success. Fast forward to this afternoon when Richard turned up at 4:00 and we went upstairs straightaway to dig into putting together the dresser.
As I am writing now you are probably assuming that we are finished, and we are. Part way through the arduous assembly he looked at the instructions which stated this was a 1 hour deal, ya right, if you designed it and put them together for a living I can see that, but we were still proud after the almost 3 hours of toil, mind you we chatted and listened to some great tunes. We are now the proud owners of a beautiful, new, white 5 drawer dressing table, that fits nicely into our smallish bedroom, and he even hung a mirror above it so that's tko. So to explain the title, now that it's sorted I kinda feel like I can let my proverbial hair down and blog again, so be on the lookout for such interesting topics as... blackberries, horticulture, duck races, and maybe something on the color brown, later yall
earl "not the tool man" robinson
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Earl, I think it is wonderful that you put the desk together. I had trouble with and end table earlier this year. Carla ended up doing it, which is not the way things are normally done in our house. PTL for friends who are handy where we are weak, and who bless us with their gifts. Kathy
earl, my answer to this went on the previous blog-sorry,mom
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