While pulling down lengths of split cordwood from a stack outside what I consider our “utility” garage door, it occurred to me that I’m 35 years late on an apology.
Let’s explore this, starting with the garage door.
I’m talking about a third overhead door in our
garage. While the other two provide standard access for our automobiles, this
door is off in the far north corner and simply opens up to my xeriscape yard.
Uyen, my late wife, and I designed the garage with three doors, but by the time
we reached the framing phase, I had second thoughts and wanted to eliminate the
door.
Uyen and I only rarely fell into tiffs, but this
issue led us to something of a prolonged skirmish. “We could save a lot of
money,” I reasoned. And I landed on a final note that “we will never use the
door.”
In the end, I gave in, and we completed
construction with the door in place.
I wound up being correct for the first 33 years we
lived in the house. We never used the door. But that changed two years ago when
we had a woodstove installed. The small concrete slab outside the door, with
easy access through the door, is ideal for cordwood storage.
It’s my go-to place now.
Today, I offer my apologies to Uyen. It took me a
while to get here, but she proved prescient in the long run.
—Mitchell Hegman
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