What if there is more than you thought?

We have family from out of town visiting. Andrew, our son, hasn’t been in the US during the summer for a few years. So everyone went to buy Amish sweet corn. (It’s just like regular sweet corn, for the record. Which means fresh from the field and wonderful.) I stayed home.

I made a short list. Clean the acorns off the deck. Make sure there is gas for the grill. Inflate the air mattress one last time before throwing it away, in case there was a loose valve that left me resting mostly on th...