Monday, January 26, 2004

My New Room

I finished a massive refurbishing of my garage this weekend. I now have shelves 8 feet high, 2 feet deep, and 12 feet long. These shelves are everyones storage fantasy. They can hold all the boxes of crap we've decided to keep, like old school books and random memorabilia, and there's still plenty of room for coolers, old lamps and vases, suitcases, grass seed, fertilizer, peat moss, etc. My ladders, shovels, axes and rakes are all hanging neatly from the walls. All my lumber is stored on racks I built on another wall. The bikes are hanging gracefully from vinyl-coated hooks in the rafters, and the scrap cardboard and wood has been reduced to ash. I put another gnarly shelf behind the workbench, and below it, there are nice rows of screwdrivers, wrenches, clamps, and saws hanging from hooks. I felt like I should be wearing some gray coveralls with a little crest on the chest ...... like the old men do in their neat garages.