On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:18:49 -0500, George Leppla
> wrote:

>On 4/14/2013 7:09 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> Our house is always OK for guest, but at time we'd spend a few minutes
>> to neaten up things like the newspaper on the table, or a coffee mug
>> that did not make it back to the kitchen.
>
>Our house is in no shape for us to have visitors. We've been here a
>year and the list of things we have to fix and remodel is seemingly
>endless. We put a lot of time and money getting the place fit for human
>habitation... now we are slowly working on things that we WANT to do
>instead of things we HAVE to do.
>
>When we want to dine with family or friends, we go out to a restaurant.
>
>(Today we have a crew here hauling away a year's accumulation of trees
>we cut down and piles of brush we have cleared. It took a year to pile
>all this up... and it will take 5 guys all day to haul it away. This is
>a pretty big thing for us and I'll be glad when it is over)
>
>George L

You missed a great opportunity for inviting guests to a brush clearing
party; serve bologna sandwiches and beer.