At home, I guess it was Christmas, my mother was all in palpitation about the HGTV Dream Home sweepstakes. Apparently every year the cable TV channel builds and gives away a house that is primarily funded through product placement and advertising revenues. This year the house was in St. Marys, GA. Georgia, the state where I live. My mother and father live in North Carolina. Despite the fact that I realized chances were minimal that my mother would win the place, I occasionally allowed myself to think of what it would be like. A house in the state where I live where my parents could come, I could visit, when they weren't there, I could possibly use the place etc.
While at home over the holidays mom and I pulled out the old laptop and dialed op to the internet and downloaded, slowly, photos and panoramas of the house. We talked about good and bad design choices made by thte decorators. We talked about which room could be the office, was it the tower, or the hideaway place upstairs?
My father just retired. I could see fishing weekends.
Today at the paper where I work I saw a small, almost insignificant headline that had come across the wire.
"Calif. woman wins HGTV dream house in Georgia"
