Lakefulness and Placidity

Here and there are sure signs that the house I'm living in (at right, the gray one) is more of a summer house than a full-year house. First, it's badly insulated and gets freezing cold inside when it drops below about 50. Also, if it rains hard, like it did this weekend, the more-or-less permanent pothole-puddle in the road out front becomes a wide and placid lagoon. It's not very deep, but it's still a bit inconvenient to get around. Fortunately, the patio is raised up just enough to have a lip of curb to tiptoe around.

This will hopefully not be a consistent state of affairs before I move out in June. Two of my roommates were here over the winter; I don't know how they did it.