Happiness is a country house

 Would I a house for happiness erect,

Nature alone should be the architect;

She'd build it more convenient than great,

And doubtless in the country chuse her seat.

-- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

Happiness is escaping the enemies of the homestead

The nightly wolf is baneful to the fold,

Storms to the wheat, to buds the bitter cold.

-- John Dryden

Happiness is a Deltec home, designed to withstand Category 5 hurricanes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Designed for disaster: These homes can withstand a Category 5 hurricane

'Matt Oblinsky, Deltec’s director of engineering, spearheads an effort to constantly find better building materials to further strengthen its designs.

'“After each and every hurricane … we reach out to each and every homeowner in the path of a storm to ask how they are,” Linton said. “99.9 percent of the time we’re seeing ‘we lost a couple shingles’ or ‘we lost a piece of trim, but our neighbor’s home was demolished.’ Our homes have been field-tested for a number of years.”'

Happiness is the humbler joys of homefelt quiet

Happy next him who to these shades retires,

Whom nature charms, and whom the muse inspires,

Whom humbler joys of homefelt quiet please,

Successive study, exercise, and ease.

-- Alexander Pope

Happiness is Clarence Frogman Henry singing his 1956 hit "Ain't Got No Home"

Here.

The best gift of all was always Tommy coming home for Christmas

Everyone's out shopping today, but I'm happy to be at home instead

 

 

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

-- Samuel Johnson: Rambler #68 (November 10, 1750)

People appear to be most happy to stay home and watch TV

From the annual American Time Use survey, here:

On an average day, nearly everyone age 15 and over (96 percent) engaged in some sort of leisure activity such as watching TV, socializing, or exercising. ... Watching TV was the leisure activity that occupied the most time (2.8 hours per day), accounting for more than half of leisure time, on average, for those age 15 and over. Socializing, such as visiting with friends or attending or hosting social events, was the next most common leisure activity, accounting for 41 minutes per day.

Happiness is that he came home a winner . . . 70 years ago