He was handed a sketch on quadrille paper.Janey was just visibly pregnant – so she “supervised.” Her major contribution was to advise the staini...g of the lumber so that it would be termite-resistant. Richard sent for a book from a shop he’d phoned in Newtown, Sydney, Wood-Frame House Construction [U. S Dept. of Agriculture number 73, February 1955]. It arrived when they were only a few days into work. Richard spent several evenings reading it: he’d need it when he began building a real house,. And I told him that I had known it must 'a been good for him because, just before he'd come, he'd gotten real good and hard -- almost as big and hard as he must of been, back in his own day. And I told him he had a real nice big pecker, which was nothing but God's truth.All during this time Bill was still coming to the cafe and leaving me good tips and all, and we were seeing each other those two nights a week. Maybe people were talking about it, I don't know. Probably somebody saw me coming. It was a Tuesday and I was staying at the Radisson Hotel near the river and, after a day of calling on customers, was enjoying a refreshing gin and tonic in the hotel bar and looking forward to returning home on Friday to my wife of eighteen years, still as attractive as when we first met, even if, as happens to most, I suppose, our sex life had tapered off some over the years. It was good, really, just, well, not what it was in the beginning. I was making some notes into my laptop as I sat at. Rose, Phyliss asked mom if I could come to her house to do hernails for her. Mom was easily persuaded, and after we packed up all Iwould need we walked the three blocks to Phyliss's home. After ringingthe bell we were greeted not by Phyliss but by her daughter Chrissy.Chrissy who was a bit less than an year younger than me, and I had a realcrush on her. The idea of having her watch as I did such feminine tasksfor her mother made me want to cry. However, Chrissy, seeing howdistressed I was,.