Hammer

[Recycled from 14 September 2004]

Kathe, the light of my life these past 20 years, is very fond of making things, and of making things work.

In one memorable incident, she finished rewiring a circuit, turned on the light and saw that it was in fact correct, gave a Tarzan yell and said, "Everything in this hosue that works, works because I made it work!"

And she's right. When she bought he house (about 10 years before we met), it was a wreck.

The other day, I saw an episode of _Modern Marvels_ on the History Channel which was devoted to the neglected marvel of hand tools, and especially "the king of tools": the hammer.

They even quoted one of Kathe's favorite proverbs: "By hammer and hand do all things stand".

[Follow-up: For Christmas 2004, I bought her a new hammer, with her name and that motto engraved on the steel shank.]

//The Magic 8-ball says, "Love can be expressed in many ways."\\