My Handy Hubby

I was just telling my husband how I never thought I would marry a man as handy as my dad...then I met Peter.  He has my dad beat by a mile, sorry dad. Honestly, Peter is the handiest guy around, seriously.  I don't know how you even become so handy, but I hope my kids have inherited that gene.

My son even says, "dad fix," when one of his toys breaks.  He's that good.

Here is a list of a few things Peter has fixed or set up or built or installed or anything he's done that falls under "handy" over the years.

1. Installed a new hot water heater at my Nana's house.
2. Our baby monitors/cameras plus our home alarm system complete with cameras
3. The kitchen vent, which he placed the roof so it wouldn't be so loud.  Genius.
4. Updated or fixed all my computer problems (and our friends and family computers too)
5. Installed our new gas heater
6. Set up our roller door (garage door) controls on my phone, along with access to the house alarm on the phone.
7. Put any Ikea furniture or baby furniture together in a snap
8. Set up outside speakers and sound system around the yard and pool
9. Constructed shades over the backyard and pool to save us from the intense Australian summer sun
10. And sooooo much more.

I know I am leaving out a ton of things he has done over the years.

I think being "handy" is fast becoming a lost man skill.  More and more people work behind a computer all day long and have no need to fix their own appliances or set up their own alarm systems when they can pay someone to do it for them.

I also have to point out that Peter is a smarty pants, who thinks he can do it better than any professional (and he might be right).  I swear he's a genius, a handy genius.  But I am biased.