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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, September 24, 2003 My Dads garage went into my dads garage. felt like I was trespassing onto hollowed ground. He had I I spent a life time in that garage. He went there when my mom was mad at him. He went there because - Page 16 If you ever wanted to get yelled at, just leave a tool out in the rain, or run a motor without checking the oil, or have a shovel or ax that was not sharp. Sometimes, upon entering the house he would demand to see my pocket knife. It didnt matter how sharp it was, he would always whistle and say, You couldnt his tools were there. He cut a damn thing could pick up nails and screws the brush hook. Most people or spin a nut on a corner brace. dont even know why you need He used to tease me and a brush hook, but when you laugh at me, telling me that I need one, it is perfect. Like all had never wore out a pair of tools, they are perfect for the gloves in my life. He said that job they were made to do. You the only reason I would need a get in trouble when you use new pair was because I would tools that werent made for the lose one or both of them. He job. I bent a million screw was probably right. My hands drivers prying something arent very open. I used a crescent wrench calloused; not the for a hammer. My dad way his hands were. probably hated that. Not that If you looked at his he didnt often adapt and hands they could tell adjust to make things work. I have to hand it to him for you stories. Sometimes my car being able to make things would break and we work. An engineer once told would work on it. him, Joe, that isnt the way its Once after we tore it supposed to be. ..but by hell it apart, we had to works. I think that was one order parts and it of the prouder moments in his was going to take a life. Sometimes I find myself few weeks to fix. But fixing something that isnt a week is a life time supposed to be, but it works to a teenager. He and I wonder if he isnt may as well just ruin somewhere satisfied to know my entire life as tell me it that maybe I learned would take a week to lix mv car. Teenagers sometimes dont see things that are in front of them. But I am in his garage. I can with something this used tools dull! He would then the way I use a pen. sharpen it and give it back. If he could He made shave the hair on things, he brought things to life. He kept my arm with it or the old truck running. He used cut a piece of paper to hide his bottle out there without tearing it, when he drank. It wasnt hard the knife was to find. I used to sneak out deemed sharp there and empty it. It gave me enough. Handles of his tools were hope, but maybe if I was truthful it just made me feel worn smooth from use. He used to show mo the leather better. During the last 40 years of gloves that he won out. (doves family deer hunting, we have were my standard gift for his hung hundreds of deer and let birthday or Christmas or them cure for a few days in the Fa tilers Day. I could always tell he has been gone for cool fall air inside the garage. buy him a pair of gloves. He awhile because his tools arent When I was small, we once liked them small, because he when they are supposed to be. butchered a pig and scalded it wanted them to fit tight so he I picked up his chain saw with out there in the garage. The dogs would come by and wait with a watchful eye so they could dart in and grab anything that fell to the Serving San Juan County Since 1957 ground. Licensed Electrical Contractor I knew the day my father died that sometime I would have to go in his garage and David Johnson Commercial I his stuff. waited go through for two years. Mostly out of Eric Johnson respect. is tools were1 clean 4 from use. Nothing of my dads ever rusted; it may have been worn out, but it never sat idle. Call Us For Prompt And Efficient Service It reminded me of the Neil No Job Too Large Or Too Small Young song that says, It's better to burn out than it is to o 435:678:24.1 5 rust. lie believed that. He lived hard. lie didnt rust. besides how to cuss. Not that he cussed and meant it, mostly it was merely an adjective used as easily and harmlessly as I would describe a red fire truck or blue sky. It just was. I dont know why. I miss my dad. I miss the way he would build a fire to warm the garage. I miss going in to check on him to see what contraption he was working on. It was his therapy to work on something. I wish I had something like that to bring peace to my soul. Running sometimes works that way. Out in that garage, I learned lots of things. I thought I was learning how to change a motor, or pack wheel bearings, or put in a transmission. But it took me this long to find out that I learned more than that. He is probably watching and laughing now. 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