one more thing about the garage...

...see the "hen pecked" post a couple of posts down for the back story...

All the stuff in my father's current garage (he's got at least three arc welders, four motorcycles, two jet skis, and two four wheelers) used to be in the house's regular two-car garage. Every morning it was a huge undertaking to move all that stuff (at least, at the time, there were no jet skis or four wheelers yet) out into the driveway, so that my father could move around in the garage.

My mother and father tell of the numerous times people would stop by to (in all seriousness) ask, "When's the garage sale?"!

(In the picture, there's much, much more stuff in there now!)

He has so much stuff, in fact, that, at his 70th birthday party last month, one of his friends bet the other friends that he (the friend) had gotten a gift that my father didn't have out in his garage. There were peals of disbelieving laughter from the men, but it turned out that it was something my father didn't have...some soft of hose cutter.