Newspaper headline: water bills will start climbing and will be 50% higher by 2020. Water, the southwest ... this is probably is about more than administrative greed. We might have to forget about watering the lawn altogether by 2020, though I will try to get in that strip by the patio to the gate. We really do need that little grass-carpet there. Regardless, I cannot help thinking how wonderful it would be if our lives are still going on as they are in 2020. I'd like another thirty years of reading and writing and watching shows, but I will definitely take the five and consider myself luckier than not.