[Nfb-krafters-korner] blind carpenter

Sun Oct 27 21:24:20 UTC 2013

Okay, Joyce, I don't know how I missed this.  I actually have some pink 
tools.  they're in a pink tool box and a friend of mine gave them to me 
because I was taking shop class in my training at the Louisiana Center for 
the Blind.  I'd love to see some chats about fixing things and how to use 
tools.  I mainly know how to use power tools but I'd love to know more.

In fact, some of the people who came by the table at National expressed 
interest in wood working and working with tools.  It might be difficult over 
the phone but, at least talking about tools and how to fix things around the 
house would be so cool.  Let us know what you learn.

Regards,

Denise

-----Original Message----- 
From: Blindhands at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 9:35 PM
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] blind carpenter

Now do I hear a new part of Krafters Korner growing over here!

I don't have a clue what I was doing a search for on google , but I came up
with this:

Pink Tools for Women: Learn today, Teach tomorrow, Build forever.
OK I  just took a fast spin thru this website and I remember what I was
searching  around for...

http://www.tomboytools.com/

Pink Tools for Women Learn today, Teach tomorrow, Build forever.

House Party sales.  I am running a Holiday Gift Boutique at our VFW  and
renting tables, so I was poking around looking for maybe some scrapbook 
sales
and stumbled across   this.
It definitely got me thinking about Krafters Korner.  I thought we  need to
ask around and get more "fix it chats:.  We did have some hguys do  a chat
that were blind and we asked lots of questions regarding how to do this  and
that.  We need to develop a Pink Tool Section for everyone and find  blind
folks to do some chats.

Pink Tools for Women Learn today, Teach tomorrow, Build forever.

I will do some more digging around on this.    I like their  logo, too.
Yes, maybe we can get linked or exchange web sites or  something.  I will do
some digging, maybe with a pink shovel!?!?

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
Blindhands at AOL.com

In a message dated 10/13/2013 8:49:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jillbilly4 at comcast.net writes:

Becky,
I saw that story!  I thought it was awesome.  I  am ready to get my
carpenter
training!  I am so sick and tired of  getting taken by these so called handy
men!  I wonder if he would come  to Alabama to work???
Jill who is giggling like becky and  Jake!lol!

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Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:35 PM
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Subject:  [Nfb-krafters-korner] blind carpenter

(CBS News) TYLER, Texas -- Just  outside Tyler, Texas, there's a
single-story
house with a story-and-a-half.

Forty-eight-year-old Thomas Graham is building this house  pretty much by
himself. And although that alone is not remarkable, just  imagine trying to
put up a three-bedroom, two-bath ranch without any  blueprints -- and doing
it in total darkness.

Thomas says he started  dreaming of this shortly after he went blind at the
age of 18. He had some  friends help him with the roof and the wiring, but
the rest has been all  him. All this in just five months.

All this and still 10 fingers -- an  accomplishment so unbelievable that a
lot of his neighbors don't believe  him. Thomas says people don't believe
he's blind.

"And then I tell  them, 'Well, let me drive your car, then,'" he says. "And
then they usually  back off. 'I believe you, buddy.'"

For the record, he is totally blind.  And on occasion, he even unwittingly
hammers home the point.

Blinded  at age 18, Thomas Graham is now building his own house -- and
reclaiming  his childhood in the process.

"Before I had these walls up, I fell  right off the front of the house
here,"
he says. "And, you know, it's real  hard to make it look like you meant to
do
that."

As you can probably  tell by now, Thomas has a great sense of humor.

"I just bounced right  back up," he says.

But there's also a dark corner to this house. The  building is actually a
replica of the house he grew up in, and his wife  suspects there's a reason
for that. Away from Thomas, in the camper they're  living in for now, Evonne
told me she thinks part of this is about Thomas  reclaiming his childhood.

"I really think that's a lot of it," she says  of the healing that's going
on
as Thomas builds. "And I hope this does  it."

Thomas acknowledges, "As a teenager, at the age of 18, I made some  bad
choices."

The worst choice, by far, was agreeing to go with his  dad on a burglary
attempt. Things went bad. His dad shot and killed a cop,  and then got shot
and killed himself. Thomas got a face full of shotgun  pellets.

He lost his vision, his father and his freedom, all in one  fell swoop. And
it was after serving his six years in prison that Thomas  decided he would
one day build his childhood home.

For his part,  Thomas doesn't care about the reasons behind the project. All
he cares  about is getting it done before winter. And if he can inspire
others along  the way, all the better.

"I truly hope that there are people who think  that they can't will find
something inside themselves, and, you know, and  say that 'I can,'" he says.

To contact On the Road, or to send us a  story idea, e-mail us.
<mailto:%20OnTheRoad at cbsnews.com>

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