The garage is not exactly my She Shed, but I have been gradually encroaching on Dale’s turf with my arts and crafts stuff. He was all for it until I said I wanted to tidy up.
First he called me Marie, which is my middle name, but he was referring to Marie as in Kondo. I explained I don’t want to purge, and there’s a lot of shit out there that does not give me joy. We need it anyway. I just want to find a home for everything.
Dale is resistant to such efforts. One time he went to visit his sister, and by the time he reached the airport, I had already cleaned his desk. He was pissed, to say the least. I keep my hands off of his desk now.
This time, I break it to him delicately. “There’s something I want to do, but I need your support.”
He gives me the arched eyebrow. “I want to tidy up the garage, but it means messing with your stuff. I promise I will not throw anything away without your permission.”
“There are tools I don’t recognize. I’ll gather unknowns into a pile and review with you one-by-one.”
Heavy sigh. He says, “I knew this was coming.”
Long pause.
“I guess.”
My green light. So excited. Since we still share this space in the name of love, I’ve decided to call it our He-She Shed. Ambiguity appeals to me.
The garden fork is my latest work of art (or something like it). I actually tried to donate the old fork prior to its transformation, and it was rejected for being dirty. So, I cleaned it up and painted it.
Wow! I can’t believe the garden fork was rejected for being too dirty. What do they expect? I think there’s quite a few gardeners that would have been happy to accept your rejected fork. We have a large neighborhood website where people list things to sell or to give away free. I’m sure the garden fork would have been quickly snatched up by someone. You did a great job on prettying up the garden fork. Good luck with the He-She Shed:)
I think our neighborhood has something similar — I need to check into it. Might find some good stuff for my art projects. Thanks for the kind words about the fork. I like it, too.