Toilet-Free Front Yard

Will and I were in the process of moving a toilet from our driveway to the backyard when Steve got home from work on Tuesday. He helped. I asked earlier in the week if I could give it away, but he wants to replace the one in our bathroom with this one when we redo the bathroom. So I'm stuck with a toilet sitting outside until then.

My new philosophy on junk in the yard is that it's okay as long as it's behind the wooden privacy fence. No one needs to know we have a toilet sitting outside but us - and our closes friends, relatives, and the neighbors.

Today was the first day I've been able to drive up to my house and not see a toilet in a long time. Maybe a year or more. Oddly, - well, at least odd to most people - this is not the first toilet to occupy real estate in my driveway since I've lived in this house. I'd go so far as to say that there have been at least five toilets, most at different times, greeting company as they arrived.

When Steve did handyman work full-time, he did a lot of bathroom remodels and he always ended up carrying off the old fixtures. He'd unload things in the driveway and when I got tired of looking at them I would haul them into the back yard. When he made a trip to the dump he'd haul everything off or I'd freecycle it.

Will and I have been steadily cleaning out our driveway and either throwing away junk or moving it behind the fence. You can actually drive all the way to the garage doors now. If the garage was clean you could park a car inside it.

Yep, life is good.