Building a Garden Hut

When your garden is built on a steep hill, organization and planning is needed to keep tools evenly distributed and minimize the trekking up and down the steps. OilMan and David have been planning a garden hut to go next to the veggie boxes. Discussions of design, materials and size inevitably end up with the mantra--"it's just a shed..." It's not quite big enough for a double bed, but OilMan says he's thinking of getting a hammock. Seems to me that defeats the purpose of of a storage shed and leads me to believe that perhaps it is going to be an escape--a sort of Man Cave.

We are going to a gathering at our friends' house in Sebastopol before OilMan's high school reunion barbecue at the beach tomorrow. OilMan refuses to go to that, but figures he can handle a smaller gathering. He is currently poring over his 1958 yearbook in hopes of knowing remembering people's names. Fifty five years later, I can't believe that anyone will bear any resemblance to themselves at sixteen....

I will make appetizers of small, piquant peppers stuffed with tuna, hard boiled egg, capers and onions and some Brie with chile jam poured over it. I won't be expected to remember anybody's name, and I might even be able to disappear behind the Christmas trees stored in Skip and Judy's barn, where the dinner will be served, and commune with the stuffed deer and elk heads mounted on the wall, and the stuffed fish over the bar. Now THAT'S a Man Cave!