The Sunday Musician

I’ve learned something from watching decorating shows with my wife: upgrade the name of something, instead of actually spending money on it. This is kind of like when your employer gives you more letters in your title in lieu of a raise. (I was once a ‘Corrugator/Combiner Doublebackerman. It paid $8.40/hr.)

So we no longer call our deck ‘the deck’. Now it’s ‘the lanai’. And the creek that runs behind the deck is no longer a nameless feed into the pond between the condo units – it’s Pointe Lake Bay. Now on hot Augest nights we aren’t sitting on our deck, slapping at mosquitoes from the creek and spilling our Diet Cokes – we’re sipping Long Island Ice Teas on the Lanai, enjoying the view of the bay.

I don’t know if it was the tea, or the view, but I was slapping the back of my neck last summer and had a sudden inspiration for my own decorating show.

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