Once upon a time we had a garage. It was a rickety concrete affair, and over thirty years it steadily filled up with everything, including an out of control Russian Vine. Rickety became ruinous, and it was eventually cleared and taken away, leaving just the decent concrete slab, the only sturdy part of the whole thing.
We decided to do without a garage, and replaced it with a shed, to be a small workshop and store. It looked wonderful, inside and out, for the first year.
But just as no flat surface in our house can stay clear and tidy for longer than ten minutes, no shed of ours can stay clear and tidy for longer than ten weeks. It slowly acquired extra gardening bits, and stuff waiting to go to the tip, or to be taken for recycling, or, dare I say, just stuff.
The obvious solution was to get anther shed... so we bought a sweet little pale blue 'sentry-box style shed, and I moved a lot of my gardening bits and pieces, and the bird seed tubs and so forth out.
But we needed somewhere to store oxygen cylinders, starting last summer. Again, obviously, we needed another shed!
Top row; the corner of the garage, the slab,
Middle row; building the first shed
Bottom row; the first sentry box shed and the oxygen cylinders
And the moral of the story is... I have no idea what the moral of the story is. It doesn't have one. It's just how our lives seem to operate.
I like your collage! I made one once with my granddaughter's help but I've forgotten how we did it.
ReplyDeleteIt was nearly easy; I followed Chris's instructions.
DeleteI don't have a shed but I do have a spare bedroom full of stuff waiting to go to the tip/recycling, stuff that hasn't found a home elsewhere. Stuff, stuff and more stuff. Why do we do it? Most people are better off than at any point in history and still we guard our stuff like Smaug, like we're about to be impoverished at any moment. And now I must sift through my stuff looking for the snow-shovel because it's been snowing for an hour and shows no sign of stopping. It looks so pretty.
ReplyDeleteDecluttering is SUCH a problem... when I read books like 'Little House in the Big Woods' it really gives me pause for thought...
DeleteOur snow didn't lie. It was little more than clumps of sleet.
I have a sentry box shed for some of my garden tools, I love it.
ReplyDeleteThey are so cute!
DeleteOh we had a Russian vine**, 40 years ago. It completely overwhelmed the garage (too small for the car) inside and out. Then Bob turned a filing cabinet into a sentry box "smoker" and produced interesting smoked foods. Weather and mice destroyed that. Now he has his amazing workshop and all seems well. ** Novice gardeners, we believed the people who advised us it would cover the ugly garage beautifully!!
ReplyDeleteWe fell into exactly the same trap - it's not got the nick-name 'mile-minute' for nothing!
DeleteThis is so familiar and actually quite comforting.
ReplyDeleteWe are not alone....!
DeleteThank goodness we didn't get a Russian Vine. We got a rampant pink clematis instead which is very pretty and smells of vanilla when flowering. Since we moved from a large 4 bedroomed house to a small 2 bedroomed bungalow we have resisted clutter and we have kept things quite sparse however that does not apply to books. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleted house to a small 2 bedroomed bungalow we have been very good and have not
Well resisted - both to the Russian Bine, which has very little to recommend it other than enthusiasm, and to the clutter!
ReplyDeleteI can't help loving Russian Vine! I know it has evil tendencies, but there is something so pretty about it!!
ReplyDeleteI think it is a pretty plant, when one steps back from trying to manage it! The vine had found a few gaps between the roof and concrete walls and was happily filling all the space inside the garage!
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