Mono Monday : : OilMan's Environment

Lady Findhorn's blip name for my husband has stuck.The dog even knows that he is OilMan . I am so used to calling him OilMan,  that I don't think it will change. However, since he retired completely a few months ago, he really should be called DirtMan or SoilMan, because he loves to spend his time growing his garden and digging in the dirt. 

Because our "garden" is hilly, OilMan has tools stashed on three different levels. The garage has some storage space, but since we actually park our cars in there, most of it is pretty inaccessible.  The pump house actually contains a pump for our well, but also has room for storage of outdoor pillows, which we forget to put in there when it rains, and forget to take out again when the sun comes out, seeds and small garden tools, gloves, pots and packets of seeds.

The shed is another story. OilMan designed it, had it built, and put in a workbench, shelves and places to store all his organic potions, gopher traps, mole bombs, shovels, weed whackers, saws, wrenches, irrigation equipment, a vise and all his prized tools which once belonged to his father. Between the outside wall and the fence are , buckets, ladders (except lfor the ones that are left permanently standing somewhere to trip up the uninitiated in the pitch darkness.) rolls of chicken wire and a wheelbarrow. I'm surprised he didn't make his shed big enough for a cot or a hammock, but there is no electricity up there so he has to come down for a beer once in awhile.

Unlike me when I try to clean out my closet, he enjoys reorganizing his shed. He spent the weekend taking everything out, painting the floor an attractive terra cotta color, building a new shelf and putting everything back in again.

The problem is, the things he uses all the time…dirty garden gloves and  knee pads, clippers and trowels wind up on the porch railing or the table visible through the kitchen door. He never takes off his shoes until all the sand, dirt, mulch soil and gravel has been wiped off on the rugs. Oilman is truly at one with his environment.

We keep the field behind the shed on the other side of the fence empty, which makes a nice environment for deer, raccoons, skunks, coyotes and the rare mountain lion. 





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