When Nate was in his senior year of college, My mom was just getting going with her Real Estate business. At the time she was buying foreclosed homes and renovating them. She had a lot of work to be done, so Nate decided to travel to B'ham for two weeks and work for her.
PawPaw, who was quite restless those days as he had transitioned out of Promise and wasn't quite sure how to fill his time, was also anxious to help mom in her new business venture. He was glad to get out of the house and fill his time with manual labor. The type of manual labor required for fixing up these homes was probably a little more than the average early-70 year old man should be tackling- but we all know, PawPaw was anything but average.
Nate found himself on one of those blazing hot Alabama- summer days, on top of a roof with PawPaw cleaning out the gutters. One thing you must know about Nate, is that he is deathly afraid of heights. Once he is on the roof, he is fine, but it's the climbing up and down the ladders that completely freaks him out. The particular ladder that was being used that day had Nathan pretty concerned as it was already a little janky looking and wasn't resting on even ground. When the job was complete and it was time to return to the safety of the ground, Nathan found himself frozen, staring at the ladder. He paused just long enough for PawPaw to shove him out of the way, mutter a "come on boy" and start to make his way down the ladder first. When PawPaw got to the bottom, he held the ladder for Nate :)
1 comment:
That's cute.
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