I got it! Yes, I still do and I had to prove it recently!
With my beautiful granddaughter Darby Shea coming to visit
me for the coming Christmas holiday (I wonder if she’ll take her parents) TLW
(The Little Woman) and I needed to get her a crib to sleep in. We were going to
give her our bed and we would sleep in the den, but we figured her parents
would feel we were spoiling her.
So out we went for a crib, and it had to be safe and well
made and found one. We took it home and I decided to put it together sometime
before Christmas. TLW went off to work one morning and I decided to put the
thing up then. There were railings, dowels, head and base boards and of course
all kinds of screws to screw with.
When I graduated from kindergarten, my diploma said I was a
‘Doctor of Puzzles’ and so I took it to heart and looked at the crib
unassembled with no, and I mean NO instructions!
TLW had a photo of the crib and said that morning: “You
don’t need this, do you? I can throw it away, right?”
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| And only 1 left over part! |
Never let pride get in your way. I said emphatically: “YES!”
Assembling a crib is a tricky job to say the least with
instructions, without instruction it paralyzes one. I stood there motionless
and wanting my mommy as I surveyed the parts and the different holes for dowels
and screws. Maybe I should call TLW and ask if she still had the picture? I
decided not to because I didn’t want to hear her.
It was Déjà Vu all over again as a young father. What is
particularly daunting is the fact that some of the pieces had holes on
different sides and you have to figure out what wooden post goes where and why.
Plus there were three kinds of screws with the same head, just different
lengths! This requires a certain amount of stupidity to even try, but try I
would.
Taking the jigsaw puzzle approach, I found two pieces that
looked like they might go together and began. The day turned out to be warm as
I stood in the bedroom without the air-conditioning running, sweat was starting
to run down my square head, dripping of the sharp edges. I’ll be damned if I
run it in the middle of October no matter how hot it is!
Slowly, piece-by-piece I managed without too much rancor or
cussing and swearing, and a minor “Oh No!” to watch it develop before my eyes!
Finally after switching only two screws, I finished! The
crib was done! And the cool fact is that I had only one piece of board left
with nowhere to put it and no screws or dowels for it!
Somehow I want to cry yet something tells me there is a
reason for it.
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3 comments:
Beautiful job, Joseph..........but could that Xtra board maybe run underneath the crib as some sort of brace maybe? Just a suggestion........I don't ever remember having Xtra pieces! LOL!! (I would ask Ellen for the picture!). :-))
The piece is for making it into a d
ay bed!
You're right! My youngest grandson has a similar crib....it can be made into a youth bed. (and I knew that, ya think??). DARN C.R.S.!! LOL!! enjoy!!
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