[mikel]

Thanks. I admit that I do really love it now but back when my wife first “suggested” that we make the landscaping change, I hated the idea. My head filled with visions of an ugly white rock yard with 2 or 3 cactus and weeds growing up between the rocks. I had invested a lot of time and money into creating a lush oasis in our back yard with the front full of (water hungry) annual flowers. It wasn’t until she ratcheted up her “suggestions” with her coy voice she often used to make me think it was my idea all along, by convincing me that those visions in my head of white rock lawns full of weeds with a couple of cactus were people who simply didn’t want to bother with landscaping and nothing close to what we were going to create.

And she was right, as she usually is.