From Low to High

After digging a few holes here and there, Sam spent a part of today walking around on top of the house, having had enough of slithering around on his belly, trying to tempt the woman like the biblical serpent. She's at school, anyway, so all the tempting would be for naught.

He found out several things. First, that the poor drainage problem was worse than he thought. One hole, dug 18 inches deep and just four feet from the side of the house, filled with 7 inches of water in less than a half-hour. He could expand the hole wider and deeper and have a genu-wine mud bog for the cost of a few blisters.

Second discovery, and this one a bit more uplifting, was that he could see the ocean in the distance when standing at a height of 11 feet above ground. At 13 feet above ground, at the next roof peak, the view got even better. From the plans at hand, Sam was able to determine that the master bedroom floor will be at a height of 13 feet. Now all Kim needs to do is figure out a way to get the neighbors to trim down their big ol' tree across the street.

Kim's aerie (Sam prefers that to "cupola", credit Joe for coming up with "aerie") will be a split level, between 20 and 22 feet so Sam expects that Kim will rarely deign to alight upon the lower floor. He'll have to go up and visit her instead, seeing as how the roof of the aerie will be at 31 feet above ground level and he might have a view of the entire coast from up there.