My Son-In-Law Said His Parents Would Be Staying At My Lake House, So I Let The Property Cameras Keep The Record Straight

with impossible wings and taped them crookedly along the stair rail. I bought a small tree from a lot outside Virginia and hauled it home strapped to the roof of the truck while both of them laughed from the passenger side because I insisted on measuring the trunk base before picking one.

“You can eyeball a tree, Dad.”

“No,” I said. “That’s how people continue reading …