We've become part of the 74 percent

I have to admit that I suffer from some professional guilt over this.

But we moved into the new house last weekend.

So, here we are with our own garage, driveway, back yard, 4 floors on which to live, play and store our flesh bags and our stuff. This does not appear to be an efficient way to use scarce land, energy, and material resources.

But I couldn't be happier. The kids can trot through a backyard avenue (complete with pygmy picket fence gates) to friends on both sides and the new neighbors are feeding us and watching the young'uns.

I think we found a keeper.

It's an 'Merican 4-square, looking sorta kinda like this:

Uh-oh. Storm clouds on the horizon. Now they tell us. Oh lordy, lordy. Can we take it back to the store for a refund?