I'm almost under roof on a home we're building. I thought everything was cool until someone told me that you build your dream house twice.

That upset me.

Right now I'm trying to convince my wife that we don't need landscaping and that we should go with the "au natural" look. Eventually, I'm going to have to use a method that I use on my 3-year old daughter which is called the choices method.

"Honey, we can either have a driveway or landscaping. Which do you prefer?"


Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."