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CharlotteJ
February 28, 2006

Doc by day Carpenter by night

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A lo about my dh and his many home "projects". My 1st contest entry.

products used:
Basic Grey skate shoppe and sweet pea pps, letter stickers (painted), holy cow rubon
All My Memories large square brads
Heidi Swapp large brown photo corners
Imagination project gin X letter costers raw (inked rusty brown and black and crumpled to give look of worn leather)
S.E.I granny's kitchen notions striped
Scrapworks round spiral clips
MM paint vanilla and chocolate ( on BG letter sitckers), hinges, small brads
Wrights baby blue slim rick rack
Dress it up button mania (med. association emblem on 'D' for word Doc, ladder letter 'A' in carpenter and screwdriver and medicine bottle
thread and sewing machine

Journaling: On the hunt for our 1st house we were both green and excited. We walked through more homes than either of us would care to remember. But from our 1st walk through the little house on Eleanor we were enchanted, and knew it was the home for us. Although it was 80 + years at the time of purchase it wasn't what either of us would call a fixer upper, and yet we still wanted to put our mark on our "new" home. You with some indoor remodeling, me with some lanscaping. But this is not a tale of landscaping; this is a tale of a doc by day carpenter by night and so it goes... Your 1st "project" as you called it was to put new storm doors in the fornt and back. You said it was straightforward and would only take an hour- well you couldn't have been more wrong. Our home was not built to modern specifications, and so you had to fix the skewampus door frames. Seeing you with saw and all manner of what I labeled "tools of destruction" I suggested calling in a professional, but you were determined, and with more time than anticipated you put those doors in.
With your new found sense of accomplishment you decided to move on to bigger things. Much to my chagrin you announced that you were going to rip out the boring ceiling and put in plank board and ceiling fans. I thought "Oh no! My husband is hel* bent on destrucion" And so we moved everything out and you began, but as with the doors things weren't as they appeared, and you had not 1 but 2 ceilings to rip out, and you did. With more hard work, sweat, and determination you put the new ceiling and fans in. It looked fantastic and I thought "Great everything is back to normal". Then came the announcement, you were going to rip out the old floor in the 3 season porch and put in tile. And once again the job was not as straightforward as it should have been. The floor was skewampus. You made adjustments and it came out beautifully. I sighed and thought "At last. He's done." But no! You decided you were going to remodel the upstairs bath. I thought "Not again, and not plumbing!" But you could not be detered, and thus another project began, and so as not to break with tradition there were unexpected obstacles lurking and waiting for you. You knew the old cast iron tub was going to be a bear to take out and down a flight of stairs, but the reality oh-oh boy! And of course continuing with tradition the floor was skewampus, and the plumbing needed upgrading. But my smart, determined, and hard working husband figured things out. The new bathroom looked fabulous, and more importantly was fully fonctional. You are the hardest working and most determined man I know. During all the remodeling you awoke early each morning and went to the hospital to work, and in the evening came home and put time into your home projects, and always made time to study so that you can be the best doc you can be. I have the utmost love and respect for you my dear doc by day carpenter by night. You are a shining example of what can be achieved through hard work and deternination

note: the chest ct scan Jesse is reading in the fold out of photos is not of a patient's it is of Jesse's own chest- no violation of patient confidentiality and privacy :)

Thanks so much for looking! :)


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