The incredible shrinking yard and the great indoors

“Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above … Don’t fence me in!”, sang Bing Crosby a thousand years ago. Those where the days when Americans yearned to go west, to spread our wings in the great outdoors. But according to the EPA, today the average American spends 93 percent of his or her life indoors.
I have an excuse.
I’m paler than a bottle of El Segundo Citra Ale and live in the West San Fernando Valley where it’s routinely 148 degrees in the