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Beekissed
Garden Master
I know! It takes tremendous discipline to maintain things in an orderly manner. I always admire those folks who have a place for everything and everything in its place....I've been places like that and it always makes me stare at it in awe and wish I had such a place.
I was just such a place not long ago, while picking up a load of manure that had been advertised for free. The people's garage was open and it was huge...I could tell it was where they went in and out of the house, so I entered tentatively, so as to knock on the door and announce my arrival. That garage was simply HUGE and every single wall was filled with shelving, hooks, etc. and all things in that garage was lined up neatly or hung up neatly....about 15 pr of farm boots on a shelf, farming implements hung neatly and categorized together, gloves lying neatly in pairs on a shelf...you name it, it had a place and was neatly in it. The whole floor was open for use!
I walked through that garage like I had arrived at Graceland, my mouth open in awe and wonder, my eyes bugging out like a kid in a candy store. I've been in workshops and wood working shops where the old gentlemen had every screw, nut and bolt in cubbies that were neatly labeled and all tools neatly stored, easy to hand and gleaming with cleanliness...you could tell someone had cleaned them after each use.
In each of these places I felt like this was a place someone actually cared about their things and used them quite a lot or they wouldn't need to know where everything was so completely. I've never been able to achieve that level of order, though it's always been a goal of mine. I'm thinking it would take a different mind than my own to be that disciplined and task oriented...I'm a very abstract thinker, a dreamer and a procrastinator.
I was just such a place not long ago, while picking up a load of manure that had been advertised for free. The people's garage was open and it was huge...I could tell it was where they went in and out of the house, so I entered tentatively, so as to knock on the door and announce my arrival. That garage was simply HUGE and every single wall was filled with shelving, hooks, etc. and all things in that garage was lined up neatly or hung up neatly....about 15 pr of farm boots on a shelf, farming implements hung neatly and categorized together, gloves lying neatly in pairs on a shelf...you name it, it had a place and was neatly in it. The whole floor was open for use!
I walked through that garage like I had arrived at Graceland, my mouth open in awe and wonder, my eyes bugging out like a kid in a candy store. I've been in workshops and wood working shops where the old gentlemen had every screw, nut and bolt in cubbies that were neatly labeled and all tools neatly stored, easy to hand and gleaming with cleanliness...you could tell someone had cleaned them after each use.
In each of these places I felt like this was a place someone actually cared about their things and used them quite a lot or they wouldn't need to know where everything was so completely. I've never been able to achieve that level of order, though it's always been a goal of mine. I'm thinking it would take a different mind than my own to be that disciplined and task oriented...I'm a very abstract thinker, a dreamer and a procrastinator.
