Porch Life

 

One of the several benefits of country life in Texas is porches, front porches, back porches, wrap 'round porches and all of that. So pleasant; get out on your porch with a cold drink and take it easy while cocks crow, hawks swoop overhead, cicadas susurrate from the trees, and all is good.

If your house is smart, its architects designed it East/West facing so your front porch remains in shade during the morning heat of the day, and shields the front of the house from burning late afternoon sun. Use those periods wisely, shade's a valuable commodity in the pre-heating oven that is a Texan summer.

Here at the Compound we're blessed with a substantial front porch, essentially an open air room, and would've been more blessed before the place was remodeled in the '80s and a wrap 'round porch was turned into a large room, aka 'church hall.' Back in the day, people used part of the porch, it would've been screened in, to sleep on in the summer. Who can blame them, beat the heat in the days before AC.

We have AC now, unlike Europe, and thank God for that. Still, when you've just unleashed two flea foggers in the hall you can always retreat out of the toxic house and set up on the dam porch. No bad thing. In less pleasant news, the UK's student union commie government's fixing to tax capital gains at the same rate as their already high income tax.

This means UK money will leave the UK, tax revenue will shrink and taxes will rise to cover the shortfall until the whole poverty stricken economics of envy place collapses under the weight of fiscal insanity. See every Dem run US city for reference. Here? I'm going to step off this porch and see if the foggers have done their trick. So far they have.

Stay tuned,

LSP