My friend Jeff and his wife bought a house in the neighborhood next to Candyce’s house in San Diego. I mean, he bought a house 400 miles from Phoenix, and it’s less than fifteen houses away from Candyce’s family. How crazy is that? He’s actually going to be out there a week from today do walk-through the house before they close on it.; I hope to be out there by then and he’ll be able to show me the place.

Jeff and I know each other from church, but it’s our interest in landscaping is what we talk about the most. He does the outdoors for the finest homes in Phoenix. I’m a little jealous, because he gets to do it for a living and it’s just a hobby for me. But he promised to give me some guidance in how to set up my new house with a Mediterranean palette of plants and trees. So it’ll be fun to do a more professional redesign of my new house.

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I think you have at least one hobby that is purely adventure. Something like rock-climbing, fly fishing, snowboarding, sailing, or something like that. Since most of the last five years of my life been on the road, I chose a hobby that was calming: landscaping. Now that I’m home more, I think it’s time for an adventurous hobby. I guess I should just fire up the hot rod.