A bloke's dream

Last march Ashley did the unthinkable and tore a sledge hammer through the shed that came with this house. Sub-consciously his rip-roaring trail of destruction probably had to be more to do with pent up angst and work stress than a vicious hatred for a dear old shed that had done absolutely nothing wrong - except for being a little rotten I guess, but that was due to no fault of its own.
Well some of Ashley's destructive delight might have been to do with an assumed guarantee that one day the shed would have to be replaced....."where on earth are we going to put all that stuff"? Well gee, I wonder...?
This is how it all went down....We re-assigned the shed space and made it a play ground (old news). There was an odd little area that used to be where the previous owner stored an industrial sized bin to shatter all his glass into (he was a glasier). For those who don't know, hundreds of little fragments, along with large plates of glass were strewn and buried all over the backyard, making the yard 100% unsafe for kids when we moved in. Consequently, we had to hire a bobcat and a tip-truck to have our backyard scraped and removed of all the glass. This act turned the backyard into a sloshing mud hole during the winter months. It was a complete mess and it was extreme, and it has taken a full year to reclaim our yard as a useable space.
Anyway, we have lawn now and some vacant garden beds which will be filled with glorious plants, given enough time; and now a shed.
The shed is just your little 8X6 foot garden variety; that was all that would really fit in that area. We could have gotten a bigger one if the gas metre wasn't an obstruction, but that is ok. This shed fits everything we wanted in there, with a little room to spare.
The best thing about the shed going up, is crossing off that last large and expensive item on our renovations list. From now on it will be doing small things, buying and planting plants, curtains, little bits and pieces, touch ups, decorations like paintings and pictures, maintenance (fingers crossed, I just remembered that our furnace is over 30 years old. I would sincerely love it if it lasted another winter or two). This is a picture of the shed. I might even take a snap of the exterior of the house during the week. Stay tuned!