Today I discovered

[mme_hardy]

 ... that my house, which I had always vaguely assumed was on an east-facing slope, is actually on a north-facing slope.

I found this out by installing a compass app and saying to my husband, "Hey, this compass app is broken!"     Apparently it isn't.   All these years, I figured that "My back window looks across San Francisco Bay to the other side" meant that I was looking east, or some variation on it.   Somehow I reconciled this belief with the knowledge that on both solstices the rising sun shines in through my bedroom window, which is at a right angle to the back slope.

I can only say "Duh". 

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[mme_hardy]

I just realized -- had you already resigned from the cemetery board?

[sara]

I was actually a cemetery employee, not a board member. It seems likely that a colleague of mine will be replacing me in that position, but I'm remaining available to them during the transition for anything that's too weird for them to deal with.

My term on the other board finished over the summer, and I was really ready to be done so I didn't take up another board position. Which has obviously turned out to be a good call!