Being Handy For The Day

Turns out, our projects for today all went off pretty much without a hitch.

One major goal was to tame our out-of-control rosebush - see how we did?

Before:

After:

We also needed to replace the hand rails on our porch, which involved buying new pieces of wood, painting them and fastening them into place. Shira was a trooper here, and pretty much did all the work - from the prep work and painting, to drilling the holes:

There's just something about a woman with power tools. Man, I'm a lucky guy.

And other than getting pricked by the rosebush, there were no casualties. All in all, the projects went better than expected.