Santina and I have been trying to downsize for a couple of years. Our timing's bad. With just the 2 of us, we'd like to move into a smaller space. No big deal, I mean it's nothing like Kaiser Wilhelm contemplating Lichtenstein. But with the economy being what it is, we're thinking smaller all the time. We've stepped back from 3 bedrooms/2 baths, to maybe one door and a perch.

A trade-off of sump pump and paint brush for the occasional tete-a-tete with English sparrows works for me, but the requisite change in diet is off-putting; and of course the growing restrictions on air travel will ultimately nix this deal too.