Today I am grateful for:

• Tanya. My house is full of an evenly distributed metric ton of dust. Tanya took one look at it, did a little sweating, then rolled up her sleeves and spent the next eight hours issuing eviction notices. Yes, I pay her, but there is no one I’d rather have at my side in this battle.
• Dustin, vanquisher of sidewalk mud. There was a lot of it. Compliments of the same circus responsible for the inside mud. I mean dust. Dustin attacked with shovels (several of them), an ice hoe (I’m sure it has a better name), and several buckets of boiling water. It was majestic. Dear downhill neighbors: sorry that mud flows downhill…