Why Do I need A Potting Shed
(My Little Shed of Pottage: Not For Smoking Pot But For Storing All I've Got!)
While I have no compelling need to smoke marijuana and no desire to play Frisbee, I do want to see a rainbow casting its multicolored hues onto my little nostalgic potting shed. It's a long-standing fantasy of mine - to gaze out our kitchen window at such a functional and charming little building that fully organizes all of my gardening tools and supplies.
To convince my spouse that we desperately need one, I made the following list. For imploratory reasons, the bullets emphasize how desirable the shed is to HIS particular needs, as well as to mine. So pour yourself a cup of tea and turn the teapot's burner down to simmer because this list is long!
Potting plants around the kitchen sink means I'm regularly cleaning mud up off the counter tops and potentially clogging the indoor drain (which makes extra plumbing work for you, honey).
Having a potting shed will provide a single location for keeping all of my garden tools and plant-ties, which means you will no longer need to complain about how cluttered are my shelves in the utility room.
If we make the pottingshed big enough, I can meditate out there, instead of in the house (where the dogs, the cat and the canary regularly make noise to interrupt my few moments of solace). Mediating in silence, successfully, and finding that "personal zen time" will mean I feel more long-suffering toward you, my love.
With the garden shed, I can put my bags of potting soil, my shovels and other large tools away, instead of cluttering up the precious little space you have available in your garage with pruning shears and such.
If we install a drying line inside that potting shed, I can hang my muddy gardening gloves up to dry, instead of having them fall from the boot rack, tripping you as you step out the back door.
If we install an east-ward facing window into the shed, I can start my plantings out there instead of leaking potted plant water onto every single windowsill in the house.
A potting shed would allow me to store plant bulbs (if we wanted) and that would money since we could then buy them out of season (and thus on sale). I would also be able to find my tools, instead of having to buy new ones to replace the ones we cannot find.
The bigger the garden shed, the smaller the lawn. (And you're always complaining about how much lawnmowing we must do.)
Finally? We can position the garden shed to block that nasty neighbor whose always spying on our house through the cracks in the tall cedar fence. The new shed will serve as another sound barrier to deflect her nasal sounding voice (our neighbor, Mrs. Gladys Cravitz, of "Bewitched" fame).
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