I have to agree with Lowspark. I drive a SUV, a big one. I pull a trailer with it in the summer, and it's the only tow vehicle we now own. (So I don't get slammed as I have in the past for driving a gas hog!) That said, I wish I had the back up camera, which was not available when we bought it in 2005. I use my mirrors, I turn and look, but there are blind spots, as there are with ANY vehicle. We do have a back up camera in the motor home. What a God send! DH even added a side view camera, as the glass in the door is a frosted privacy glass. When you come to a diagonal intersection, you can NOT see from the driver's seat to check traffic coming from the right. Normally we are both in it so the other checks traffic, but there are times we need that side view camera, either when only one of us is in it, or when checking traffic at highway ramps. For some reason, people no longer think that they have to yeild when they are the ones entering the highway, they think we have to move over to let them on. Well, I have news for them. Some day they will be buying someone else a new vehicle. There are times you just can't be nice and move over for them! Especially driving a large vehicle, SUV or motorhome as examples. Those cameras are great! You might only use it once in a while, but that one time might save a life or a car,no matter how careful you are. Tami

I watched Nasty Little Letters on NYE after DH went to bed before 9 and I needed something on for both sound diversion and amusement while I brushed Lulu and tried to keep her calm. She shook the whole time. But it was an interesting little who done it and I enjoyed watching the characters develop -- mostly women. The language is part of the story so you have to be okay with that or you won't get to the heart of the story. We also watched Come From Away on Apple TV. I think I may watch it again. My youngest saw this cast and had a workshop with one of the actors and choreographers just before the pandemic. The taping was the first performance after the shutdown - with all the audience in masks. There is so much percolating in the background. Get your drink or snacks, go to the bathroom -- it never lets up and there is no intermission.

Laura Linney is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and doesn’t want to tell anyone. I’m only a couple of episodes in an, can I say I’m enjoying a show about someone with cancer? But I am. The storyline so far is not about the physical aspect but about her life, and how she wants to live. I‘m going to have to get the rest of series from the library; every time I try to watch it on Netflix now it starts buffering half-way through. Check it out. Laura Linney is amazing.

Mark is right. The overall appearance needs to calm down and be more simple. Too many random angles and planes on the house. Get rid of all the raised trim around the windows. That really looks terrible. I took off some stuff but the jutting in and out and the balcony overhangs are still too much IMO.