Let The Sun Shine In

Autumn signals a lot of different things.
Cool crisp days, which mean you can wear pants and forgo daily leg shaving.
Dragging out all the winter clothes and taking inventory of what is needed, while wondering how children can possibly grow so quickly.
Leaves on the trees that turn beautiful shades of gold and red that need to be raked into piles or, my personal alternative, leaf blown into the neighbor's yard.
Picking apples and buying wildly overpriced pumpkins to carve into jack-o-lanterns.


It also means, for us, finishing up all the home improvement projects that we intended to finish in the warmer weather, but didn't. Now we have no choice but to work ourselves crazy trying to finish them up. This year it is scraping, reglazing, painting, and reinstalling windows. Too many windows.

So many windows, in fact, that we have contemplated the unthinkable, on more than one occasion.

I'll ask, "Rob, do we really need so many windows?"

"Probably not. The kids just smudge them all up with their sticky little fingers anyway."

"I have an idea... Why don't we get rid of the window and wall it up!"

"Let's wall them all up!" he will shout and toss his tools down.

"Think of the savings in heat," I will say.

"We can pretend we live in a cave"

"Never be bothered by that pesky sunshine"

"I hate it when it makes a glare on the television," Rob will add.

"Sunshine is so over rated."

"Vitamin D too."

"Who needs sun, isn't that why god invented electricity?"

"It was on the 8th day. God said, "Let there be light indoors"

"Bored of all that resting in the dark He was."

"And it was good"

In the end, however, it is just all talk and we decide that keeping the windows is probably for the best. For resale value. But it doesn't stop us from having variations of this conversation over and over again.

I guess we are easily amused. Or else missing precious brain cells from working with chemical strippers.