Shiloh comes with its own built-in maintenance man.  And he's never yet run out of things to do.  

Yesterday and today it was repairing the chandelier in the library.  In involved dragging out his super tall ladder and climbing halfway to the sky.  Our maintenance guy reports that putting all the gazillion little parts that comprise a chandelier back together is not unlike doing a challenging puzzle.  You should see the finished project!  It looks sparkling new again.

The other day it was cleaning out the septic tank.  For that he enlisted the help of the much younger Guy and Francis.  Certain jobs just need to be handed off to  guys who still have a good portion of the strength of their youth left.  But Mr. Jack-of-all-trades was the master mind behind the project.  He was right there, coaching, instructing, and even doing.  Meanwhile Doris and I spent the entire day praising God He created us female. They never once thought of enlisting our help.

Last week our favorite maintenance man was repairing an attachment for our Kitchen Aid.  If you can't run out to the store to buy a new one, it's sure awful handy to have a Jim Tucker around.  We highly recommend it.

For the last 46 years he has been the official knife sharpener.  We don't even know what a dull knife looks life.  I admit to being spoiled rotten.  

We have a refrigerator repair man living right here with us.  And a washing machine repair man.  Large appliances, small appliances?  Piece of cake.  He can fix them all.  Sewing machines, hair clippers, shavers, the list goes on and on.  If you can brake it, he can fix it.  No problem.

We've never taken the time to calculate how much money our favorite maintenance man has saved us down through the years.  I mean, how would you begin to put a price on everything?