What's on your refrigerator door?

It has been said that you can tell a lot about a family by what's in their medicine cabinet. I beg to differ. You can tell a lot about what's ailing a family...by the contents of their medicine cabinet. I think I could get a pretty good idea what a family is about by looking three other places...namely: their bookshelves, the front of their refrigerator and in their backyard.
There was an article in The Oregonian (yesterday?) by Larry Bingham called "Back into the backyards: How do you use them?" That article got me thinking about the difference between our front yard and our backyard. The backyard being our personal space...and the front yard being our public face. Right now...our front yard is a work in progress. We have planted a few new things and have mulched a little...but that's about it. Most everything there has been growing and growing and overgrowing for many years now. It will take a lot of energy to get it back under control I'm afraid. Our backyard is also pretty overgrown. However...it's still a great place to be. My husband is a wonderful outdoor cook...using both the grill and the smoker...and he always makes enough food to share. Gone is the swing set, wading pool and vegetable garden of years past. They have been replaced by comfortable chairs, a couple of tables and a hot tub for our old achy bones.
If you look closely at our bookshelves, you will notice that easily a third of the books are cookbooks (and half of those are cookie cookbooks!). Another third would be spiritual books. The rest are a combination of kids, travel, gardening and reference books...with a couple of novels thrown in for good measure.
Our refrigerator is like an open book. Both sides of it...and the door as well...are covered...and I do mean covered...with assorted magnets. Some were souvenirs, others are advertisements and some that were just too darn cute to pass up in the store. They hold up over two dozen comics, some inspirational quotes, a few photos, a POLST (physician's order for life sustaining treatment) form, a couple of good fortunes out of long gone fortune cookies and one especially intriguing horoscope. Also on the side of the refrigerator is a magnetic pocket cubby crammed full of recipes, receipts and other miscellaneous stuff.
What kind of a picture does this paint of our family? We are comfortable, well fed (physically and spiritually) folks who really enjoy things that make us smile. There is nothing pretentious about us. We love having other folks join us...and when we do have guests...we make sure that they are comfortable and well fed too.