Make no mistake. This wasn’t some kind of secret tryst. I’ve been married to the GG for over 40 years and we were heading off to do some mowing on the North Country Trail. He had taken Moooon Yooonit out there to hook the trash trailer up to it and I was just joining him there.

So I went out to the garage, I was greeted by this scene. Expect the unexpected is often the name of the game in our long-time marriage so I wasn’t really all that surprised. Just another moment of WTF?

When I was a kiddo, we didn’t have a garage at the moomincabin. My brother talked my parents into building one. At the time I was advocating for a “bunkhouse”, with a bathroom, and laundry facilities somewhere. I was pooh-poohed. Like always. You’re just a girl. You can’t drive late at night (Cyndi Lauper), yada yada yada. The male members of my birth family prevailed and we got a garage. To be honest, building a bunkhouse with water and laundry would have been a pretty huge endeavor what with putting utilities in and would probably have involved a chainsaw massacre.

So there was some grumping and grousing about the garage (including from yer fav-o-rite blahgger) but in the long run it turned out to be a good thing. It holds a whole bunch of small botes, some of which used to over-winter INSIDE the blasted moomincabin and other places. It was a really handy place to stage stuff from The Comm’s house after she died and we were getting rid of things. And it provides a Man Freakout Chamber for the GG and a place for him to hold court with whoever is walking or driving down the road while he is out there. And the trees between the cabin and the garage have grown up so much I can’t even really see the garage from the deck. I don’t think the “artwork” on the wall is anything my parents owned.

Anyway, the second photo is the finished product. The green amphibian thingy is Froggette, not Froggy. The hat proclaims “Black Flies Matter”. I get the stoopid yooper humor but am not all that amused by it given how divided our country is with such a nut case at the helm. And yes he *is* a nut case and yes our country *is* divided.

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