"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 10/15/2013 10:04 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> Of course the paint won't "escape". Neither will the paint thinner.
>>> I'm simply saying my garage is the place to store chemical items. I
>>> don't want a pot of food cooled a shelf that contains chemicals. I
>>> don't know why no one seems to understand that.
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>> *curious* Don't you put your car in there? We don't anything in ours
>> except our cars (well we have stuff in the roof part but not on the
>> floor.
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> Yes, I put my car in the garage. Also the lawn mower. There is also a
> tool chest with wrenches, hammers, screws and nails. Again, I don't
> consider the garage a place to cool down a pot of soup or stew even if it
> *did* get cold here. The kitchen suffices.

We don't keep any garden things in there because the smell of gas could be
smelled in the house. We do have a garden shed and most all of the garden
tools will fit in there. Although the fruit picker is a bit touchy. You
have to put it in there exactly right to get it to fit and then it sort of
blocks you from being able to get at the other things. So it usually goes
in the back house or at the side of it under cover. Not sure the mower
would fit in there either. I don't think it is wide enough. We keep it in
the back house.

Our assortment of wheel barrows is alongside the back house in a covered
area. Why the assortment? Well, I bought one when we lived on Cape Cod.
Actually it was called a garden cart. How husband did not know that I had
this, is beyond me. So he went out and bought one when we got this house.
The other problem? He told the realtor that the former owner could leave
anything they wanted to, here. And it seems that they collected
wheelbarrows.

So... The first time we went to daughter's dance studio's showcase, I was
putting tickets into boxes for the raffle they always have. One prize was a
wheelbarrow full of bottles of wine. Husband saw it, looked panicked,
hurled himself in front of it and said, "No! Don't get THIS!" Of course
that got people to talking, thinking there was some sort of drink problem.
I just laughed and said, "No. We have a wheelbarrow problem!" Should
probably put a few of those out by the street with a "free" sign but from
the looks of what the neighbors put out there, there aren't ever any takers.