Two Car Garage

I don’t know if I should be proud or embarrassed.

People don’t use their garages in California they way they do in the Midwest. Here, when garage doors are open, boxes and old furniture are stacked next to washers and bikes. The Californian garage is the Midwestern basement; a room for storage. People here keep their cars parked on the driveway year round. Instead of following our neighbors, we cleaned it out, added some toolboxes and a mower, and called it home for our cars. Not one, but two cars can squeeze in.

There's not much room to swing the door, but as spring is blossoming, sap is dripping. And although I feel a little less Californian pulling into the garage, I sure as hell won’t miss the gobs of sap* stuck to my hood.

*Gobs of sticky sap is still way better than ice and snow.