Laurey Boyd

Of all the challenges baby boomers face, none is more daunting….than answering the challenges our children pose! Laurey Boyd found out firsthand, when suddenly her boob tube wasn’t nearly big enough!

There has been a strange phenomenon in our otherwise low key little bungalow. We have gone from television sets that are teeny, to only tiny, to friggin’ huge. I was the last holdout in this transition. The aesthetics of the living room are my domain, and I’ve held to a Frazier-like eschewment of anything gaudy. Not only the monstrously humongous TV but the apparatus you put it in. I wasn’t game for a double-D-cup wall unit in my face every time I entered the living room. It took our youngest teenage son to move me past my passé philosophy.

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If there’s one thing most boomers probably have thought about (even if they haven’t actually done it), it’s a remodel. And why not?!? It eats only a few months … well, maybe six … or maybe a whole year … okay, sometimes more than a year out of our lives. As Laurey Boyd writes, she and her husband Bill went the whole nine yards … and still might not be close to the finish line.

Our family lives in a house built by rugged individuals over time. That is to say that Doober, Goober, and Bubba each got just so far in their jerry-rigged, sub-code sequential renderings before each one put the hill country charmer up for sale. Enter city rubes, Laurey and Bill. We spotted this idyllic beauty in a real estate magazine and were smitten. We stayed smitten for quite some time, even while knowing the place had been built by sparing every expense. Superfluous and otherwise. Such is love.
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