Drowning in Reading Material

(Another pic from springtime in Borrego Springs) Whoever says that newspapers and magazines are going to die out is just plain wrong. That is, if our house is any indication. This year, I was enticed to subscribe to three additional magazines (all three for a grand sum of about $10 -- Oprah, Smart Money, and Good Housekeeping). On top of that, Sweetie renewed my coveted Practical Photography (a British mag). And, we get the New York Times 5 days a week, plus the local "rag" 7 days a week. And then there's the weekly student newspapers at the college where we work.

If you ever need kindling for a fire, just pay us a visit.

Anyway, this is largely just my way of making excuses for neglecting the blog.

The House
We continue to plow forward with home improvements. The painting continues. Today, a gutter company came by to give us an estimate to add a downspout that was clearly forgotten about when the house was built (there are 3 turns in the gutter before the next downspout AND we found a length of downspout disposed of under the wooden stairs on the side of our house...). We've had a landscaper by, since I was proven wrong about the "ornamental grass" in the backyard. There ain't nothin' ornamental about it. It's pure weed. And once the sun came out, the whole backyard became a jurassic weed park.

But I'm really looking forward to moving out of this rental and getting settled into a house with two sinks in the master bathroom. The house could not have a kitchen, a living room, nor any bedrooms, but as long as there are two sinks in the master bathroom, I will be happy.