Recent developments 1. We hate our yard. We've tried and tried to do something with it. But we're not landscapers and we don't know what we're doing. So we're giving up and we've called in some professionals, which we're super excited about. The idea of boulders and a dry creek bed came up. I likey. It's still in the very early stages, where we're just talking about it. But stay tuned. 2. Our neighbor wants to get DirecTV. Only, we have lots and lots of trees. He came over the other day and asked David if he could take out one of our trees. Now. We have about 5,000 trees in our yard. (Well, it seems like that many.) So how he thinks that one tree would make that much different, I'll never know. But I haven't told you the good part yet. Just wait. He told David he should tie a rope to the truck (David's pickup truck) and to the tree and drive. And viola. The tree would come down. I haven't the words. 3. I finally broke down and called the police about our (other) neighbor's barking dog. Sunday night, the poor dog was going at it for about an hour. So I got up, went downstairs, found a number for the police station and called them. They sent someone over about 15 minutes later and... silence. I guess they made the woman take the dog in. I really don't know how we got such sucky neighbors. We're perfectly lovely people.