Bixing Stuff

When I was growing up, my Deddy could bix anything (yes, I know that says bix instead of fix.  That's how I said it for a long time and we still say that Deddy has 'bixed' something!).  He could bix cars, the house, the yard, toys, appliances and anything else that can break - sometimes to my mom's dismay.  Usually when things break, that means that you have to get a new thing to replace it with.  In my mom's case, when something would break or stop working and there would be the possibility of getting something new, my dad would come in and bix it right up!!  He still bixes anything that goes wrong with the house and we call him Collins Garage because we take our cars to him for our big tune ups.  He still changes his own oil and brake pads and does a lot of the maintenance on both of their cars.

He is very handy around the house due to his years of working construction and having an engineering brain, but when he doesn't know how to do something, he researches it and figures it out.  He has had a lot of 'All You Gotta Do' projects through the years.  That phrase comes from saying, 'Well, all you gotta do is just replace that part.'  Then 12 hours and several 'damn its' later you have the entire thing disassembled on the floor and the part is still yet to be replaced. 

Now that we have begun to work on the nursery, Jason has been introduced to the 'All You Gotta Do' projects.  He hasn't had a lot of work in construction and those types of jobs, so he is having to learn as he goes.  He has removed crown molding and an absolutely absurd fake attic entrance from the ceiling in the nursery and replaced it with sheet rock and orange peel.  He has installed crown molding all the way around the ceiling.  He has laid plywood in the attic to give us some more storage space.  He will soon be assembling the crib and furniture we bought a while ago.  I love the fact that he is willing to tackle those jobs and even if he doesn't know what he is doing when he starts, he has done a great job and is becoming quite the handy man himself.  I'm very proud of the work he has done and what we have been able to make the nursery become.

One day, Caroline will be running around asking her Daddy if he can bix some of her stuff!  And I'm sure there will be plenty more projects in Papa's future with all of these youngins running around!!