Long time readers of my blogs know that both my wife and I are Do-It-Youselfers (DIY). We love to tackle household repair/maintainence jobs.  At our age of 88.7 and 90 respectively, we do it not so much to save money anymore but for the pleasure of accomplishing a job well done.(since you are willing to spend time to do things with loving care).

 Anyhow recently a piece of furniture (a bedroom bureau drawer) developed a problem with a drawer not being able to close. To repair it, we had to disassemble the back panel of the drawer furniture since the drawers were built in and cannot be taken out. To remove the back panel one requires knowledge, skill, and the correct tools as well as the right kind of nails to re-assemble it. Because of a lifetime of doing such jobs ourselves, we had not only the knowledge but also all the tools and supplies at home and did not have to go out to stores to search and buy them. Once you decides to do it, we do not have to wait for days or weeks for repair person to come.  After an hour and half working together in cramped closet space, we managed to complete the job with the repaired furniture good as new. What is more, we also found various valuable personal stuff that has fallen into crevices of the furniture that we assume to have been lost during our downsizing and moving to this senior retirement home. Such pleasure of doing things and accomplishing tasks together bring a kind of pleasure impossible to describe in our 65 years of marriage. We feel blessed. For most home owners or married couples under similar circumstances, they would just "REPLACE rather than REPAIR" and miss the pleasure of DIY. But one does not know what one misses if one has not experienced or aware of the existence of such joy before.This is the reason for the title of this blog article. Who is going to say their lives are less blessed and enjoyable. Nevertheless, we feel blessed at our advance age to have each other and to experience such pleasure together. Horay for our refugee mentality!