accommodations

Cleaning this big ole house has me thinking about the accommodations I'll be staying in for a month. He told us we wouldn't have a washer or dryer. We'll have to wash our clothes in the bath tub and hang to dry. We also will have no air conditioning. We'll have to hang mosquito netting over the windows or over ourselves at night. There will be knats flying around our heads all day while we are in the steppes. No wonder they have such a high alcoholism rate. It sounds like it may drive me to drinking. The average age for men to die is 57, they are usually damaged in someway from industrial accidents and they are alcoholics. Wow what a life. I know they we live in excess, I know my house is to big and I have to many things. It just seems to me that I find joy in taking care of my surroundings. Not that I'm totally materialistic, but I do like to live in a nice home and find pleasure in caring for it.