Sunday, May 07, 2006

upon cleaning of the garage.....

ok, so.....yesterday morning i opted to clean the garage rather than walk the shakertown run at 7:30 am.....i am so not a morning person.......my half of the garage workbench was piled up with stuff that didn't sell at last summer's yard sale, gardening stuff......even stuff brought back from my office when i quit at emrmc 6 years ago....and a box of cookbooks i brought back home when i left the restaurant....i say my side to refer to all that isn't tools, painting equipment, or otherwise stuff that my spouse calls his own....but i digress.......my concern in pulling out the pots and cans underneath was the possibility that i would find more of the opossums that my spouse found the night before....hissing and carrying on........and so i wore heavy rubberized gardening gloves just in case.......but after all of rearranged or loaded either into trash cans or the cartrunk for the goodwill...no sign of the critters......i was in such a throwaway-mood that i moved on to my closet.....and managed to find 73 items of clothing that i could live without...between the hanging clothes, drawers and storage bins for opposite season things......mostly i was discarding clothing in sizes i will never manage to wear again...not because i have given up hope, but because should i ever wear single digit sizes again i will surely deserve newer things, right?....gentle readers.....should you ever see me attempting to buy black pants.......silk, linen, wool....doesn't matter......remind me that i have more pairs still in my closet than i could ever wear out......i did find a nice brown summer pants and top outfit that i had completely forgot i bought at the big goodwill in lexington on new circle..........wow...clean garage, clean closet.......closure is such a nice emotion for a saturday evening.......and so i was mighty surpised when my spouse bolted in the front door after dark, exclaiming that there were possums climbing up in the gardening tools that i had carefully arranged.....and that it appeared that they were living in the upstairs of the garage with their hissing mamma.......so....we must now figure out how to get them to move out of the garage...and i must be on the alert for possums in the dogfood........pesky little creatures.......

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