Monday, July 23, 2018

Domino effect

When you give a man a workshop / classroom for a decade or two

He will fill it with...projects. 

Many projects.

Some out of wood, some robotic, some electronic.

He will also use this classroom / workshop to house his collections

Star wars and lego collections  - to name but two.

So when the man trades the classroom/workshop for a desk job in a shared office ... one has a problem.

A space problem.  

There is a "man house" at home but when the man has more than one hobby...


Like carving and building and fly tying and kayaking... then one has a very full man house... before the collections and projects even arrive.


So

When you have a main house with a decreasing number of residents and a man house with a shocking increase in "inhabitants" then ... well.... you see where this is going....

The dominoes started falling on Saturday as the sheer volume of Allan's personal teaching materials that have to be moved became evident.  And as the space in the man house was surveyed it became clear - something had to go. 

So the fly tying station got bumped from the man house to the main house family room.  

Only the desk did not fit.  

So it got bumped to the backyard for donation.

The house was surveyed for other suitable options and the desk in the master bedroom got bumped downstairs to become the fly tying station.  

So the 1990's scrapbooking materials in the upstairs desk had to go.

And so by the end of the weekend the man house is slightly more ready to receive the contents of the classroom/workshop, the family room is now ready for the fisherman to tie flies AND watch TV AND chat to the wife who will not be scrapbooking. 


Apart from rearranging our house and the man house, overhauling workshop Al's wardrobe, figuring out dog duties as well as new work and workout schedules - the dominoes should stop falling soon enough, right? 

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