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that she couldn't do, or do better than most people you could hire to do it.

Sounds like she really understood the nature of craft and really enjoyed it. Also, I don't think you've told on tape about what you did together, in terms of your own woodworking. Could you take just a minute to describe that? You had a shop in the house as well?

Did I what?

Did you have a shop in the house as well? A woodworking shop?

No. Oh, a very modest bench, a circular saw and a band saw and a plane. She operated all of them. If she wanted to cut something she'd go down and find some wood and do it, and that was that. It used to worry me, when I was out of the house during the day, that she would turn on this big power saw and run wood across it. I thought if anything ever happened, if she cut her hand or something, there wouldn't be anybody here to help her. But I extracted a promise out of her that she would confine her work with those power tools to those times in the day when either I or someone else was here. It annoyed the hell out of her, because she said she knew how to take care of herself, etc!

I don't have anything I can point to that she made, but she was a very skillful person with tools. It was a joy to work with her because she was so skillful, and knew what tools were for. A lot of women (and this is true of a lot of men, it isn't something that's just sex-related), a lot of men don't have proper respect for tools. They'll use a tool for opening a jar when they should use a can opener or a jar opener. As a result, the tools aren't always kept in good shape. She never violated a tool; she had a great collection. I must have given, I guess to the