You know,

I could not ask for a better neighbor or friend!

A year ago the City of Toledo in their infinite wisdom decided to cite my old empty house as a neighborhood eyesore!

The yards were being mowed, the paint was good, the scrappers had stayed away, all the windows were intact and the gas and lights were even still on! There are 1000 boarded up, falling down, rat infested vacant slums in the city and they cited ME!!! Well, I showed them!!! I ignored the citation!!

I guess they didn't like that and I got a summons to appear.

They stated a couple problems they saw; no gutters on the north side of the house and some bricks needed work by the porch! This was when I was doing 6 - 12's at work and 8 on Sundays and I didn't have time to take care of this so I hired a gutter installer to do those and Tom offered to fix the bricks! (For a Price !)
Tom did a great job as a bricklayer/mason fixing up the bricks on my porch!!
Recently, my 13YO golden retriever has been going downhill and his hips are getting extremely bad. He is having a hard time with steps and guess who helped me out again!! Yes, our favorite KJ Guru, bricklayer, mason, landscaper, auto detailer is also a pretty dang decent carpenter too! Tom stopped by this morning and picked me up and we ran to Lowes, got some 4x4s, 2x6s and 5/4 deck boards and 3 hours later I had a handicapped ramp off my back door for Rusty!!

He even made sure it was wide enough and close enough to code that my wife can use her wheelchair on it when she needs it!!



Thanks Tom for just being my neighbor and friend!!!!!
Rusty has used it already
Oh ya, Tom .............. make that 5!!!!!!!!!!
