No rain

Like the acoustic version of your favorite rock song -- back when music was actually what was featured on MTV and VH1 -- we're unplugging. We haven't started some extreme new lifestyle here -- oh no, not us we are still MEGA consumers with a new SUV, 5 T.V.'s, Doritos, Diet Coke, video games, wireless internet, 2 cell phones, driving to our neighbors house across the street, remote start so we can burn gas warming up a car that we are going to drive across the street, you get the idea.

But at our "wannabe" cabin (because we wish it was ours) on Glen Lake that we rent for 1 week per year and pretend it is all ours there is no T.V., no Wii, no Hannah Montana, Camp Rock, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Little Einsteins, Fox News (gasp, choke), no Obama, no McCain, no missing children or murder moms to hear about, no digital camera uploads, no landline, barely a cell phone tower, no dog, no washer/dryer, no alarm clock, no ceiling fan, no Schmayden on the mini Trek cruising up the drive, no dishwasher, none of that, not even a laptop to blog or check email...unless Art's Bar now has wireless because that's the only other place I am going.

Snoozy, Jeepers and I are unplugging, for 1 week at Glen Lake and it's not because we don't love all of those things...it is only because our little cabin on the great big beautiful lake has an imaginary sign on the door saying "this is a roof over your head, use it only in case of rain."

xo -- B.M.

We'll be back next Saturday, August 2 with avenges.