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Helpless Female Learns to Turn Off the Water

How many helpless females does it take to turn off the water?  One.  As long as she has two daughters, one father, one friend of the family, and two construction workers (4 men total) to show her how.  And as long as the handle is red, so it’s easy to remember. It all started like [...]

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Helpless Female Ties Down Portable Garage Cover Pool Housing at Midnight

Honestly, when I left the tool catalog out on the kitchen table for my husband, Greg, to look at, I didn’t know there were swimming pool enclosures in the back pages!  I didn’t even look at the front cover long enough to know what was shown on it, let alone delve into the one inch [...]

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Helpless Female Discovers a Dandelion Weeder is Good For Extracting Weeds by the Roots

When I first saw this type of weeder, I thought it was a joke. Why would someone buy what seemed to be a straight stick? It’s not that I’m impressed by complicated tools, but I didn’t see what this tool had to offer. I have seen it advertised as a dandelion weeder, or simply as [...]

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Helpless Female Turns Right in Taipei

I wandered all around Taipei last week by myself.  This worried my husband, but since I made it back every evening, he began to relax.  I walked several miles around the hotel, down to the river and the fabric market, and regularly to the local Cold Stone Creamery…to practice ordering in Chinese!  I made it [...]

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Helpless Female Fast Train Adventures on Taiwan High Speed Rail

Every time I get into a line that ends at a clerk surrounded by Chinese characters, I become acutely aware of a vast emptiness in my head.  You know.  The place waiting to be filled with Chinese vocabulary.  The language barrier becomes painfully real and I feel I could be swallowed up by my own [...]

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