Fred and Ellen’s Visit

One day, this fellow Fred came to the door and said the Marsha had told him that I was good at fixing computers.  He said he had a problem with his printer and his internet.  So I went over to his house on my bike.  When he plugged his new printer into the USB port in the back of the computer his wireless stopped working.  So I unplugged the printer and connected the wireless again.  He was happy to have his internet back.  It took me a while to figure out they wouldn’t both work together.  Fred was going out for the evening.  So I said I would come back another day and fix his printer.

I didn’t hurry back.  I thought he could probably install his printer himself.  A couple of weeks later, he came back to ask me to install his printer. So I rode my bike over to his house.

I found that I couldn’t install the printer using the USB without interfering with the wireless.  So Fred reminded me that the printer could be installed as a wireless printer.

So I installed the printer as a wireless printer.  It took a little bit of work but when I was finished he and his wife, Ellen, were very happy.  Ellen said she would make me some cookies.

I told Barb that Ellen was going to make me cookies.  Barb said I didn’t need cookies.  But she needed someone to help her fix a dripping faucet in the bathroom.  So I went back to Fred’s house during my afternoon walk and asked him if he could help us with the faucet.  He said he could do plumbing.

He and Ellen came over one day with cookies and to look at Barb’s quilts.  Ellen is also a sewer and a quilter and a knitter.  Fortunately, Barb had just cleaned up the spare bedroom and she could see the quilt on the bed.

A while later Fred came over again by himself.  He fixed our outside faucet and our door.  He also helped Barb with the faucet.

Every time I see Fred, he tells me how great the printer is working.