my front lawn is your front lawn

"In the kitchen, he poured another drink and looked at the bedroom suite in his front yard. The mattress was stripped and the candy-striped sheets lay beside two pillows on the chiffonier. Except for that, things looked much the way they had in the bedroom--nightstand and reading lamp on his side of the bed, nightstand and reading lamp on her side... He considered this as he sipped the whisky."  -Carver

Above, a quote and excerpt from my first blog post ever and, in my mind, a fitting analogy of blogs in general: crossing the lines between public and private space, pretending it is totally natural (though we all know it isn't).

So crack a beer and dig your feet into the grass. I'll be back in a few weeks when I've tied the knot.