We got your front-end loader, your dump truck, your F250, and your incipient flower garden. The great money-sucker is going down.

LATER: Lordy, Lordy. The girl in the yard is a dump truck driver. Her ex-husband is driving the front end loader. He got into the dump truck to back it up and dump dirt into the pool, and had a hard time of it. She got into the truck and handled it. He wouldn't listen. Never did.

NOTE: Two years ago this month, my utility bill would have been $400. This year it is $196.