Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for May 17, 2012

Time for a new diversion, take up darts or skeet shooting…

No one argues with somebody holding pointy throwing objects or while handling gunpowder for reloading shells

Haha My parents worked out an arrangement when they were first married. My dad gets three months with any broken appliance or electronic and then it goes in the garbage! He gets to dink around with fixing stuff and mom gets the satisfaction of throwing it out so stuff doesn’t build up. It works for them.

I have the “workshop of almost but not quite”

I just make my dad take my mom out on a date on Friday nights to be together. But I’m working, then I’ll chase them out of the house on a day when I don’t have work.

I hoped that someone here had already looked up insouciance, but I had to do it myself. “Light-hearted, unconcerned, nonchalant”. So he doesn’t care if he fixed the appliance? Or this is the state he is in after spending some time in the workshop?

Maybe it’s time you moved out of your parents house and let them have some privacy Doctor.

Jimbo’s version of the “Let things be” tree??

Nihilist: I reload my shotgun, not shells (c.1790 32ga double-barrel flintlock). Unlike private thermonuclear devices, it is what the authors of the Second Amendment were talking about.

Jimbo doesn’t want a new hobby, he likes going down there and relaxing. I don’t think he ever really wants to fix anything, especially not that toaster and I’m sure Rose knows that. One thing I appreciate about the relationship between Rose and Jimbo is that they appreciate and recognize the need of the other person to need to have some space alone and apart from the other, occasionally. _

“Cast your burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain you.”Psalm 55:22a

Hey, that quote is from a Psalm of David, so no issue for a Jew. Muslims probably accept it also – they accept a lot of the Bible, particularly OT. However, it might offend Hindus, Buddhists. Shinto, Bahai’i – and of course atheists.

I don’t think Rose accepts Jimbo’s working on one appliance all this time. She has a mad look on her face when she tells the neighbor about this. Maybe he’ll be stuck with his garbage moments.

I’m a Christian too and feel a man needs to work and be busy doing things for the household. Read Psalm 128 about the virtues of a godly man. King David wrote that too and he was very Jewish.

I had no problem with word meanings; I have always been very literate. I might even be able to wire it myself, but I would want it to be totally safe and a new cord would be less than a new base machine for around $350

We got rid of all our bedrooms but one, ours. One bedroom is now the wife’s sewing and craft room. Another is my den. People ask, “What happens when the kids visit?” Our answer is “Murphy bed or couch for one week. After that, the nearest hotel.”