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Rhonald:

--- Quote from: Pineau on May 20, 2014, 03:43:40 pm ---Are you suggesting the photos were staged.
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Well....your last picture with you sitting comfortable in your Life guard station - with brew at hand - and the previous pic of her headed for the water, makes me think this is your David Hasselhoff pose! Yes I bet you get a kick out of the sometimes, handing of house hold chores with our equipment and small appliances.

I have a Dyson vacuum that with her acumen - I was left needing to hover the first few times, to teach her the proper method. For the cutting of the grass, no where near the acreage you have, I do that chore myself. She tends, however, to get outside before me when it comes to shoveling the side walk and I should search to post the one picture I have of her doing that chore.

Pineau:
Her curiosity and energy level is a blessing most of the time. I think Fiona has a higher level of testosterone than most women or she is just a Tom boy deep down. If I am working on something in the garage that is typically "men's" work, she cant stay away. She cant stop grabbing tools from my hand and saying "here, let me". It's scary sometimes cause she will grab for a running jigsaw or a spinning drill without thinking of the danger. I think it comes from being alone for years and fixing everything for herself.  She is a real mix. A cross between macho, elegance, sexy and mischief with a little crazy thrown in.

She loves to go shopping at Macy's for clothes, shoes and jewelry and later stop at Home depot to pick up some home improvement project. Last night she helped me size and hang a screen door. I am not sure she is typical of a Chinese woman or if she is just weird. I would like to hear from others that have a Chinese wife just how much different they are from the American woman.

Shoveling the sidewalk. Not my job !

maxx:
Before I was married I had a vacuum cleaner. That I had for 10 years it was a dirt devil plus 2.I used it about once a week. It was a nice vacuum. It took my wife about 2 weeks for her to break that one. So I went out and bought another one. It lasted about 6 months. In the last 8 years she has gone through halve a dozen vacuum cleaners. The vacuum before the last one lasted a total of a week. It succomed to battle fatigue.

I finally went out and dropped a couple of hundred on a shark vacuum cleaner. That she had seen on the TV. It lasted a total of 3 months before it died the first time. I fixed it and it ran for another 3 months before it died again. So I pulled it apart and fixed it again. And told my wife. She couldn't use the vacuum anymore that I would do the vacuum.So far it is still working after six months.

When my wife first came to the states my brother and sister in law came down. And they took my wife out and bought her a cheap rice cooker. And a bunch of other stuff. It lasted for about 6 years. She was using it everyday. I went out and bought her a new one about 2 years ago. It's working away right now. No problems.

When my wife first arrived I bought her a high end computer it had all the bells and whistles it was supper fast it would work at light speed. Six months latter the cooling fan stopped. So I replaced it. Six months latter. The hard drive stopped working so I replaced it.2 years latter the fan is dying a slow death the speakers don't work and it runs at a snails pace. So I fix it all. So that it runs like the super computer it is. It finally stopped working in 2012. So I went out and bought a high end lap top. A year latter the cooling fan is dead. So I fix it. Six months latter the cooling pad stops working  so I give her my cooling pad. It died 3 weeks latter.

I don't know if it is bad luck or what. She has also killed the wash machine and a clothes dryer. And she is working on her second dish washer. And her third exhaust fan. And the second complete toilets in one of the bathrooms. I have rebuilt the toilet in the master bath twice. Granted all of these appliances were built in 1996 and they didn't start dying until 2008.But keeping everything up and running around here is a full time job. I'm always fixing holes in walls busted screens. Stuck windows and missing trim. Oh and lets not forget the door handles. I have replaced most of them in the last couple of years.

I'm not complaining it just seems odd I went for years not even thinking about any of this. And now I'm constantly fixing something. I guess it is the price I pay for having such a wonderful wife and mother to are 3 boys.

Arnold:
mmmhhhhh... Gerry, you know all those Photo's only show me that you treat your LaoPo just like a "Chinese" Man... let the Woman do all the work around the house... while your seated and sipping Coffee I'm sure she made for you too. Shame on you!

Oh... forget to mention, at the Lake... you properly send your LaoPo in the water to catch some fresh Fish.. didn't you?

Pineau:
Maxx, that's funny. My vacuum got tired too. It hates socks. They get caught in it's throat. Mine has a big  valve that switches the vacuum from the floor to the hose. If you forget to switch it back to the floor it just winds hair and lint onto the brush and little else.  I do all the vacuuming here now. She is that way about most of the appliances. They are a total mystery to her because she has never seen one before. But with a little education she has mastered most of them.  She still wont use the dishwasher (it cost too much to use)

Honest Arnold. I never asked her to do any of it. She just naturally likes to mess with tools and such. She likes home projects and is intrigued that American men that can actually fix stuff and make stuff.  She loves my garage setup. I have at least one of every tool you can mention and probably more than one. She is not afraid to help herself to my toolbox if something needs fixing. She wont ask me. Sometimes I am not even home.

If she sees something interesting at a garage sale she starts talking about fixing it up and using it. The TV stand for the big TV upstairs used to be a tall cabinet with drawers on the bottom half and shelves on the upper half. Well two saw blades later the top is now in the computer room and has become a computer desk. The bottom half is the cabinet under the big screen. Downstairs used to be cluttered with shoes and slippers. We got an old TV cabinet from the Goodwill store and with a little paint it has become a Curio-cabinet/coat-rack/shoe cabinet. 

At first she drove me nuts but now I like it. She thinks the way I do. She dresses up very nice but I bet if I had some guns we would be out deer hunting this fall. She was looking at camping gear in Costco last Saturday. I was getting old before I met her.

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