For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 06, 2019

definitely worth a laugh, John

This is really good.

It seems to have room for ventilation and improvement.

This is how we learn the importance of planning.

Besides a hole it could use more “fit & finish”.

Not bad for an eight-year-old!

More parents need to take a few minutes to teach their kids how to perform the basics of working with their hands (carpentry, cooking, sewing, auto maintenance, etc). So what if their results aren’t perfect, that’s how they learn.

Leave the bottom open and call it a bat house instead

The front will be the side you drill the hole through.

Except for Jay’s that yell cat cat

Stories like this one remind me of spending hours with my dad working in the garage on one thing or another. My brothers didn’t have any interest, but I sure did.

Make it easy. Put in a front door, a back door, and two side doors!

I’ve made things like that…. 8^)

She’s a kid. She did a great job.

At least on the general image for her first try.

This is actually a very good bird house for a kid who is essentially operating with no help at all. The parts have gone together to make a solid structure and the nails appear to be in the right places even if they are not all hammered in. Unfortunately the joke is, once again, John laughing at Elizabeth’s incompetence as a builder who cannot figure out where the front of her bird house is.