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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silverthwait, post: 101278, member: 103&quot;]Re: subject matter.&nbsp; My grandfather had the tools and equipment to fix furniture, appliances, gizmos, thingamajigs.&nbsp; He collected every size nail there was, all sorted neatly in their own drawers with compartments.&nbsp; If i were to list everything in that cellar I&#039;d be here til New Year&#039;s, 2019!</p><p><br /></p><p>He had a passion for acquiring all sizes of each item.&nbsp; For instance: C-clamps - the littlest was less than an inch, the biggest was well over a foot.&nbsp; They hung like a frieze over his long work bench, advancing in size by the half inch.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone in the neighborhood knew that if they needed a certain kind of tool, Doc would have it.&nbsp; Always.&nbsp; Several of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have an untippable footstool he made me.&nbsp; And someone in the family has the huge, mahogany Governor Winthrop desk that he found in somebody&#039;s barn in a few hundred pieces.&nbsp; It has troodles of compartments, drawers, slots, etc., all of which he maneuvered back into place one way or another, and it was a wedding gift to my parents.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the kind of thing he did in his &#039;spare&#039; time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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