The article presents the writing piece of the third place winner of the 2013 Vocabula Well-Written Writing Contest sponsored by the journal "The Vocabula Review." The work discusses a man's plumbing works at his own home using vice grips, a roll of duct tape and a can of Army surplus oil. It also outlines cooking on stoves, playing horseshoes and fishing with an aluminum row boat with fluorescent-blue dragonflies that skimmed over the water in sweeping arcs.