When I retired my carpet cleaning van, I had grand plans to convert it into an adventure van or a mobile man cave, but as these things so often do, it has become a shed. It’s currently filled with mostly furniture that we don’t have room for in the house, but don’t want to part with. There’s also a fair amount of garbage in there, but garbage that is too big to fit into the trash cans, and nothing that I think will disappear if I put it on the curb. It’s funny how getting what you want and getting rid of what you don’t, while staying within the confines of the law and morality, are equally difficult.

As luck would have it, the stuff we actually want to hang on to is underneath the leak in the roof. The garbage that I would like to get rid of, but can’t without taking a trip to the dump, is bone dry.