The Impossible Dream

On this day, 683 days after we moved into our new house, we parked the Jeep inside the garage.

With the garage door closed.

It wasn't parked on top of anything.

There was even room to open doors and walk around three sides of it.

I can still work at the workbench.

The girls can still access all their outdoor toys.

I know there were a lot of naysayers out there. I had to include a picture so perhaps they would believe it. No Photoshopping there my friends. That is, in fact, our garage and our Jeep.

My garage is packed full of tools on a good day. Throw in a couple of bikes, several kids toys, and a full complement of gardening tools and equipment and you've just filled a small two car garage to its limit. On moving day, it was also packed full of everything that didn't have a place of its own. Sure, it's a "two car" garage, but you could really only get two cars in there when it was empty if one of them was a Cooper Mini.

There's still some organization to be done, but through some creative arranging and some very close tolerances, it all fits and is usable. It was much like putting together one of those tangram puzzles where you look at all the pieces and think to yourself, "There is NO way all these pieces fit inside that rectangle." But when you arrange them in the one and only correct way - SUCCESS!

So, in the immortal works of Jim Valvano, "Don't give up, don't ever give up." You, too, can dream the impossible dream. You can put your car in the garage. We did.

Many thanks to Melissa and Dave for all their work.

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Posted by Chris on 4/19/2005 11:59:00 PM :: Permalink   
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