Free Space

As Ananias mentioned in one of her comments, finishing the patio stone project did free up some space in the garage.  This enabled me to start thinking seriously about what to do with that free space.  And, it also nicely coincided with an idea that had been percolating and a nice sale I found.  So guess what I purchased?  That's right, a guest kayak.  It's the same model as my current kayak but a couple years newer.  And, its official color is mango instead of red.  I'm trying to decide what its name is.  My first thought is Miss Piggy to go along with my kayak's name of Kermit.  Maybe it's not a girl though?  Maybe it should be Grover.  A couple suggestions from the baby name website were Aksel, Rolf, and Waldo.  Waldo might have potential.  Weirdly enough, one of the girl name suggestions was Melissa.  Maybe Percy would work?  Let me know what you think.  Lindee named my kayak Kermit and Devin named my car Herman, so I sometimes do take suggestions.

The new kayak

Freshly swept and partially organized garage.  With two kayaks and only a few stones left.

It's a two-car garage with just enough room for one car and a little bit of space to walk to my car.  Also note some of the new shelving and hooks that I put up and am now using.

The other thing I noticed yesterday is that the last stone I cut so nicely was put in backwards.  Doh!  FAIL.  And I had planned everything else so nicely.  It must not look too bad because it took me several days to notice.

Since we're talking about garage stuff, on Saturday when I was working on the patio stone stuff I left one of my garage doors open.  Later in the afternoon as I walked into the garage when I was about to close the garage doors, I thought I heard a small chipmunk "chirp".  I listed but didn't hear it again, so I shrugged and closed the doors.  Well, Sunday after meeting when I went to open the garage doors, I startled a chipmunk who was running around my garage.  It was on!  I got close enough that I could have stepped on him, but I didn't because I was wearing sandals and didn't want to have to clean the guts off my sandals before going to the kayak shop.  And, I didn't want him to possibly get close enough to bite my toe and give me rabies either.  So I tried to hit him with the kayak cradles I was carrying, but no luck.  He ran underneath the pallets on the other side of the garage.  Then there was probably a good 15 minutes of cat and mouse where I was very still and tried to lure him out so I could hit him with a shovel.  We eventually compromised at the point where he went outside the garage and around the corner.  I closed the doors quick before he could get back in.  That's the news from Lake MI where all the chipmunks are safe (at least until tomorrow) and all the women mean-spirited.

Come on over for a paddle!