“Your to-do list wasn’t the easiest, and I didn’t get everything . . . but”—he drops one of my hands and points to the largest addition where the bed sits—“I added on to make it bigger, and there are garden boxes outside where we can plant—and I quote, ‘all the good vegetables and none of the gross ones.’ “Your skylight to watch the stars.” He points above, and sure enough, there’s a skylight I had yet to notice.

