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Tit for Tat

Having finished my last woodworking project, I am free to take on a project that I have wanted to start for some time. I want to make bedroom furniture that I will inventory and then sell in an on-line store on my web site. I am currently drawing up designs. I am pretty sure it will be furniture for children. I like the thought of a little whimsy mixed with good craftsmanship.

On another note, my wife has started doing something that I am finding interesting. She has been trying to do something nice for someone once a day. She has no expectations of anything in return. Primarily just because she is a nice person and secondly as sort of an experiment to see what will come from kindness. Also, she has been unemployed for 9 months now and she has some time on her hands to help people out.

Yesterday, she saw the hired gardeners raking leaves at our neighbors. They were carrying all the leaves out to their truck to haul away. Since we had a big pile of our own leaves to burn, she went over and asked if they wanted to just add theirs to our pile. They loved the idea. Much less work. And when we had collected our leaves into piles around our yard, the gardener came over and said "Don't worry about moving your piles to the fire pit, we can get that for you".

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Tit for Tat! Wasn't that nice of him. His guys took care of the job in no time.

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That's me playing pyro maniac! Some kid's never grow up.