Cathy's Holiday in England

I just looked at your photo's Cathy, they are good!

Thanks Lyn. I appreciate that! 

Thanks Babs! I love reaading your posts. They are so expressive and jolly to me!!

thanks Cath, i have finaly decided to retire after starting work in 1964, and worked hard continuously all my life, its time for me to step aside and let the young people get some experience lol. I retire a week on Friday, my body is telling me I'm not as young as I think I am,  so I've looked at several little hobbies and projects i want to take up before I meet my maker. lol

Happy retirement Michael! My dad was a carpenter, cabinet maker, builder. He loved to do stained glass and woodworking. He wanted to get into stenciling the wood floors in his house but never got around to it. He is what I call an old time craftsman. He was self taught through reading everything he could get his hands on. He made my nephew a toy Joker on parallel bars that were so balanced if you gave him a gentle push he would go around and around traveling on his pole across the bars on his own and back again. He could also draw. He made a beautiful stained glass type chapel window with the Holy Family in it. Was gorgeous. I can appreciate the work that goes into things made by hand.

you cant put a price on things made by hand cathy, you could put many hours into making something that may only have a retail value of a few pounds/dollers or you could perhaps go out and buy something mass produced for a few pounds. If you still have the stained glass iten your father made, its worth its wieght in gold to you.

Yes it is. Everything he made is to me. I have a bookcase he made when in high school. My grandmother used it to put plants on many years later. I will never part with it even if I have to put it in storage for my daughter one day.