Renaissance man!

I knocked out a wall today in the basement. We purchased new laundry machines and in order to move them into the laundry room I had to remove a wall. It seemed easy and now I will rearrange the hallway a bit to add a door that wasn't there before. 

Through all of this medium hard labour, I thought of the phrase 'Renaissance Man' for some reason.  I guess my childhood on the farm provided me with many skills that a lot of guys don't have. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? This is how I learned to cook, sew on a button, iron my shirts, clean the house, feed the cows, milk the cows, clean up after the cows, paint, repair, plumb and carpen (these aren't words, I just made them up. Plumbers plumb don't they? Carpenters carpen, right? :) 

Since I've been a home owner I have changed every door in the house, changed almost every window, put in a new bathroom, built wall to wall bookshelves in the basement for my thousands of books, and built and repaired dozens of computers. Add to the mix my various web pages and, drum roll please, we have a Renaissance Man. Ok, so I can't play the piano but I can write a mean poem! 

I've been using the microphone again with some of my friends and, as always, please remember that you are better than you think you are. Virtually everyone I talk to speaks better than many of my neighbours here in Toronto. Don't give up!