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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - Page 20 Men really are useful I live alone and find that off. Problem solved. there are many advantages of My full trash cans have to be I rolled out the backyard gate to eat what the single lifestyle. I want when I feel in the mood to eat. No one says, Doris, why did you the alley every Tuesday morning. No problem. Theres a concrete walk and a back gate which opens Musings them together. Whats more there was a big depression in one side of the queen sized mattress on my bed. Problem arises from one person sleeping in the same place every night. The mattress was too heavy for me to turn over to even things out a bit. An electrical outlet had sparked at me a couple of times and I didnt dare use it anymore. A blind in the din- buy that? I never have the shock of Except easily. sitting on the toilet onlh9MESA rainbeen when its seat and realizing ing room window had coby Doris Valle that the man of the ing. Then the wood llapsed from old age and swells and I cant needed to be replaced. A large house has left it up. On the other hand - rememget the gate open because it painting of a flying cow had ber Tevye, in Fiddler on the fits too tightly. I stand there, been out in my garage since I moved here in late January of Roof, who always said, On the pushing and using bad words, other hand... So I, on the getting the gate open a fraction 2004 and I wanted it hung over other hand, must admit that of an inch every time I back up the stairwell going up to the men have uses. And since this and ram it with my body. My attic. The staircase leading to that is a family newspaper Im not Handyman moved the hinges. going to write about the most Now I wont have to get the attic siphoned warm air from obvious one. But at night a gate open by batting my head the rest of the house. I kept man in bed is very useful to against it - my reading about how much more expenhead is probably keep ones feet warm. sive heating gas is These days I keep a heat pad the hardest thing under the blankets so that about my body. going to be in the A closet door when my feet get cold I can upcoming season and I felt a more turn on the heat pad. But that was off the thing it will never be quite as satisfacis supposed to equitable arrangement of hot air to tory as sticking cold feet slide on open or would be advisagainst some guys back, even close and someone if he is not very nice about it needed to reach up and put it able. Maybe a door shutting as he wakes sputtering, What back onto the track. A desk off the stairwell from the rest the...? And there are always needed to be carried up the of the house? There were many more the things that go bump in the stairs and put in the attic overI I had bought items on my Things to Fix list. night. Honey! Honey! hear flow bedroom. the pieces for a couple of small I was fortunate in finding a rea funny noise outside. But the big advantage of bookcases to hold my book supally handy Handy Man. My having a man around the ply which had outgrown all the thought for today - men are a house is his usefulness in the bookcases I had already but I lot of trouble but they are maintenance and repair de- couldnt figure out how to put handy to have around. partment. Today at my house I have a Handyman who is, for a price, fixing things which have been annoying me. The hot water tap in the RTHODONTICS ENSEN guest bathroom didnt turn all the way off. When I use that Alan C. Jensen, D.D.S., M.S. bathtub I push and push and 570 West 400 North Moab, Utah 84532 I to until the get push manage drip to cease and desist. But Call a guest never turned hard an appointment enough and the water would drip. .drip. .drip all night long. 877-322-73A small door in the side of an old captains chest would no longer stay closed unless I SPECIALIZING IN BRACES stuck a piece of folded cardboard in it. My fix looked pretty weird sticking out of the side of the door. My handy Handy Man could not find the right piece at the hardware store - a small spring - to repair the catch, but the handy dandy hardware store man took apart a pen lying on the counter and removed the little spring. Here. This will do it, he said. And it did. The gutters outside in my patio area were specially designed to serve as leaf catchYour Connection to the World ers and my trees were 800-448-34- 13 specially designed to supply leaves. Then it rained and water leaked out the bottom of J 60 it the gutters. I cleaned the dumb things once and was revolted by gooey, smelly mass of rotted vegetation. They filled up again within the week. 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