Andy: They had. . . the guy had a carpenter out there once. Used to be a tall building just east of the main house that they. . . they tore it down. . . the carpenter tore it down and used it to enlarge their house.
BH: Um hum.
Andy: And ah. . . anyway, the carpenter, he. . . he done a lot of work there, too. He had two or three men working for him. But anyway, when they finished, why. . . his name was Tony. But anyway. . . I. . . I thought they were through. And told me to come out there on a Monday morning, and I says, "I thought you were through." And he, "No," he says, "She wanted me to come back out here and she had a little work she wanted done." And it wasn't very long, and I come back over around by the bunkhouse, and he was gathering up his stuff, and putting it in the pickup to come back in. And I says, "I thought you were going to work awhile." And he says, "No." Says, "She decided she wanted to build a cabinet up there, and ah. . . I didn't know how to build it." And then anyway, um. . . she told me later that if Malcolm, after he left, told me said, "Well, Malcolm hollered at me." He says, "Hey," he says, "Mary Helen wants to see you." So I went over there, and. . . and ah. . . there's an old fireplace in the bedroom. In fact, when that house was put in there, why the logs—they weren't straight, you know. And the fireplace was built the same way. Anyway, she wanted a cabinet from the fireplace over to the. . . to the corner of the room.
BH: Um hum.
Andy: She said that she asked Tony to do that, and Tony told her that can't be done. And she says, "Can it be done?" And I says, "Well, yeah. It. . . I think. . . it can be done. It just takes quite a while, because" I says, "everything is so crooked. You've got to measure for every board." But I says, "It can be done." She says, "Okay. You've got a job." I told him that I was going to get a carpenter that could fix it. So she fired him. (Laughs) And you know, quite often, she'd pull something like that, you know. She'd surprise. . . pull a surprise on me once in a while. The plumbing. . . we always had plumbing trouble. And. . .
Virginia: Yeah, daddy was the plumber.
Andy: So I was always called in to. . . to do that plumbing.
Virginia: Talk about plumbing—at the Oliver place, one winter. . . I remember it winter. Daddy sent us all us kids back to the house. He says, "Go on and get some shoes on if you're going to stand on this ice." But however our plumbing was, he had to chop the ice. And all us kids were barefoot out there, watching him chop the ice. How was that plumbing fixed?
Andy: (laughs) That was. . . that was the well there. It just overflowing all the time. Because it wasn't draining. . . it wasn't draining, and I had to chop ah. . . inch through that ice.