A Barn, Eh?

[Fistandantalus]

Well, as there's a barn about 12 feet from the house, I'm in there all the time.

The last time I was in there:

I fought off a phalanx of brown recluse spiders in order to get into a box that supposedly contained "valuables" but instead turned out to contain 17 used pads of Mad Libs, several mouse-gnawed Agatha Christie mysteries and a copy of "The History of Scottish Architecture", which was rather ironically glued to a book entitled "Metal Adhesives" with mouse crap.

I managed to locate the sprayer we use to destroy the poison ivy, but failed to locate a pertinent part of said sprayer, which cause me to spit out a spate of vindictive that made the cat run up a nearby tree.

I discovered that the boat we use to get out on the man-made pond in order to manage the algae growth has a large hole in the bottom of it, which was clearly made by a pre-pubescent boy foot and as we have no shortage of pre-pubescent boy feet around here, I think that story shall never be told.

I told Nigel to get off the tractor eleventy-billion times.  Yes, eleventy-billion, which comes right before four skillion, which comes right before an early bedtime.

I found the homemade flamethrower I used to use to "burn" the floors of the old dog building and briefly considered using it to torch the barn itself, which aside from providing a place for the tractor and four skillion brown recluse spiders to live, is basically a tin-walled container for crazy crap nobody ever needed in the first place, let alone the last place, which is typically the barn. 

What I wouldn't give for a wood chipper and a Dumpster.

[busywithkids]

May. 12, 2009 at 10:38 AM

LOL....sounds like my garage. Our loft is filled with all kinds of crazy crap. Key word...crap.

[MemaSu]

May. 12, 2009 at 10:44 AM

Why do we do that? Why do we save things 'in case' we'll need them, when we've never needed that item in the first place?? It's truly a mystery!

We need abarn- for Cow & hay, & I promise to try not to fill it with anything else!

 

[Bridger]

May. 12, 2009 at 11:12 AM

lol

[KTMOM]

May. 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM You had me at the four skillion brown recluse. EEEEKK! No thanks!

[evwsquared]

May. 12, 2009 at 2:49 PM

What I wouldn't give for a basement, or a barn. DH can kill the black widows that accumulate (we don't have brown recluse in CA). I really, really, really miss having storage!

[Moomie]

May. 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM

This sounds like my basement, minus the tractor, brown recluse spider, boat, mouse crap, and ......oh wait, I guess it doesn't REALLY sound like my basement, other than I have a lot of unnecessary crap in my basement!

[tat2edmommyof2]

May. 13, 2009 at 8:31 AM

Your replies to the "journal questions" are the only reason I get up sometimes I swear...