Here are the options I see I have.

1) Do nothing and forget the conversation until she brings it up again.

Pros: The ball is in her court and I do nothing until she brings it up again.
Cons: The consequences and conditions may be worse for letting it slide the first time.

2) Please my case that the barn is too far away and I would be unable to make future wonderful gifts for her and nice things for the house. Pros: This seems like a rational argument so I doubt she’ll discount it as whimpering and whining. Cons: It really is whimpering and whining and I hate stopping to that level.

3) Hold my ground and insist that the shop stays here. Period.

Pros: She would almost certainly give in and let me keep the shop at in our garage.
Cons: I would then be living in the shop, in the garage, which is not heated and no running water but there is always the mini fridge!

4) Get rid of my truck so it doesn’t have to be left on the driveway all the time (one of the reasons she want the tools out of the garage is to get another vehicle in.)

Pros: It might be an acceptable compromise and allow me to keep the shop in town.
Cons: I can’t haul much lumber on my mtn bike and without the truck, I can’t get my quad out of the city limits for lumber hunting (see Rambling #1) and what about fishing! Riding a bike in waders SUCKS.

5) Move the shop to the cabin and move myself there also.

Pros: I’d get to keep the shop close at hand, shorter traveling distance for fishing, skiing and lumber scouting and I can get to the local bar easily on my bike, quad or even my feet.
Cons: . . . uh, well I guess I need to think about this some more.

Regardless of the solution, I suspect there must be some hidden agenda here and I’m going to have to consider my strategies carefully. A larger POL, perhaps king sized ;)

And as I learned from my first post, if there isn’t a picture then it isn’t real.

So here’s the barn.

Update: OK, since I got some grief for no photo, even though I wasn’t touting a project or some other accomplishment, here’s a photo of me out scouting for lumber last summer. Pickings were pretty slim that day, just some pine and fir, neither of which I was looking for so I ended up with more fish than planks that day.

I got the message LJs, No more posts without photos.

Note the portable workbench an use of only hand tools. No chain saws allowed in these woods.