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The Rural Voice, 1993-04, Page 10FARM SAFETY FACTS FROM THE WEST WAWANOSH MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY SAFETY TIPS: * Provide sufficient overhead lights to ensure good lighting in work areas. * Use additional lights over stationary tools or work benches. * Portable lights will eliminate shadows when working on equipment. * Light coloured walls will reflect light more effectively. When you need insurance call: Frank Foran R.R. 2, Lucknow 528-3824 Lyons & Mulhern 46 West St., Goderich 524-2664 Kenneth B. MacLean R.R. 2, Paisley 368-7537 John Nixon R.R. 5, Brussels 887-9417 Donald R. Simpson R.R. 3, Ripley 395-5362 Delmar Sproul R.R. 3, Auburn 529-7273 Clinton 482-3434 Laurie Campbell Brussels 887-9051 Slade Insurance Brokers Inc. Kincardine. 396-9513 Chapman -Graham Insurance Brokers Owen Sound 376-1774 Chapman -Graham -Lawrence Walkerton 881-0611 West Wawanosh Mutual Insurance Dungannon Ont. NOM 1 RO 519-529-7922 V�Y 6 THE RURAL VOICE Gisele Ireland All this over one little wall As I drove in the laneway, hope beat fervently within my breast that today, Super Wrench would have come good for the promise he has made with monotonous regularity for the past two weeks. Not a chance! I'd have had more luck expecting valet parking in our yard than to see any signs of industriousness within the abode. My greeting echoed off empty walls. All I want, I keep chanting to myself, is for Super Wrench to whisper sweetly in my ear that today is the day the wall is coming down. Now, we're not fighting the battle of Jericho, we're renovating ... AGAIN. The whole wall business came up quite innocently around Christmas- time. Our two-year-old grandson, Benjamin, was attempting to man- oeuvre a riding tractor with wagon attached around bodies sprawled on the floor. Admittedly, the room was littered with the signs of the holiday season, but even if that wasn't the case, there isn't enough room to swing a cat around when we all go into the living room at once. We take a number so some can sit, some can sprawl and the rest can stand up and complain. Super Wrench was in the complaining department. It suddenly occurred to him the room was too small. Especially now with our new- ly arrived grandson, Caleb, soon to be astride another riding vehicle. As much as it pained him, Super Wrench, with a lot of help from the rest of us, decided the time had come. His office had to move to another location and the wall between the two rooms would be removed to make a larger living room. In the beginning, Super Wrench was just oozing enthusiasm. By the time his new office was in order, the zest for this miraculous transition had faded considerably. We did our part. We packed, scraped and lugged stuff into every nook and cranny of the house so the room was emptied and he could knock the wall down. The room is gloriously empty and Super Wrench is diddling around. We need a permit to find our way through the minefield that used to be a hallway to our bedrooms. We've all forgotten what watching television is like, let alone sitting down anywhere to do it. We now have clear cut choices. If you're not in the bathroom, the office or the kitchen, you are banished to your room for all other activities. Doesn't seem to bother the Wrench much since he's never home. It's that blasted wall that's keeping him away. The inconvenience doesn't give me nightmares, it's the speeding time. Six weeks from now, our daughter Diane is getting married and I so look forward to entertaining family and friends in the bathroom or the kitchen. We're only allowed in his office with special permission since he caught us ironing in there. Yes, that acid, causing ulcers, is pumping overtime for me. I keep telling myself he pulled the same stunt four years ago when our oldest daughter got married. He laid the entrance floor on the day of the rehearsal, barely finishing in time to make the church for the event. Surely this man doesn't plan to do a repeat performance this time around? The last wedding saw me gulping antacid liquid at an alarming rate. Unless that wall comes down imme- diately, I'm going to be ordering the stuff by the caseload. I keep waking up in a cold sweat to the imagined vibrations of a jackhammer and graciously clad guests laughing uproariously and pointing at Super Wrench demolishing the interior of our house on May 1. I guess they call that particular day MAYDAY for good reason, and Super Wrench will likely enjoy every suspense filled moment. I know I'm not.0 Gisele Ireland is from Bruce County. Her most recent book, Brace Your- self, is available for $7 from Bumps Books, Teeswater, Ontario. NOG 2S0.