Watching paint dry

It's more popular than you might think and I am one of the millions who will happily sit all evening long watching someone paint, spackle, saw, hammer (especially with those cool power nailers) and gut.  Not to mention weed, plant and and prune.  According to an AP story Home and Garden Televison has become one of the more popular networks on cable TV.  A quote from the story just about mirrors our experience.

"This station has changed my life. It's all I watch," says Paula Zirinsky, public affairs director for a New York law firm and wife of an architect. "I have never seen `The Sopranos,' never saw `Sex and the City,' never saw `Desperate Housewives.' Why, when I can watch `Divine Design?'"

And tonight, joy of all joy, HGTV is beginning a feast of Christmas programs entitled 12 Days of Christmas Specials.  All evening for 12 evenings anything and everything about how to decorate and shop for Christmas and ending on the last night with a tour of the decorated White House.   How divine.  heh, be there, you're in good company.