Hubby and I were just joking about how we’re going to have to make our yard look a wee bit more redneck*. We have a garage, but we can’t use it. It’s stuffed from wall to wall with my Grandma’s junk. So is every other storage building, barn, and attic on the property. She probably has 60 years of junk piled up around here, and there’s no telling how valuable some of it is.

Because of that we’re stuck with one of those open carports that would be ok except the wind blows rain and snow under it. Last year we had the bike outside, so we had a tarp thrown up on the side where the wind blows. There was a line of shrubs protecting the other side. We haven’t worried about it this year because the guest room became the bike garage, but not anymore.

We’ve got a friend coming down to spend at least a couple weeks with us, and he’s going to need a room of his own. That pushes bikes outside, and means we’ve got to fix the carport up somehow to be rain/freezing rain/ snow proof again. This year it’s not as simple as throwing a tarp over one end because the row of shrubs on the other side got chopped down. Now I’m on a mission to find a tarp big enough to cover the whole thing so we can redneck carport cover* it!

*Hey…being that I am said redneck, I’m allowed to say stuff like that!