It was another busy year. We celebrated five years in our house, so maintenance projects are now in the mix.
Indoor Projects
- We put up some cabinets in the entryway that actually have enough space for each of us to have a place for shoes, hats, gloves and face masks. The roomba fits underneath it!
- Jack put in a laundry sink for a birthday present. It's great, in part because the water gets hot so quickly right next to the water heater in the basement.
- With help from my parents, I refinished our table and Jack and I finally hung pictures above both of our desks (https://aglie.blogspot.com/2021/10/new-old-table-and-gallery-wall.html)
- Jack replaced the ugly fluorescent lights on our stairs with track lighting. It looks great.
- We continued our tradition of switching the kids' bedrooms every two years. This year we did it between Thanksgiving and Christmas and D got a new bedframe with a trundle bed. They have bunked up once over the holidays when my family spent the night.
- In April we put up a really thick glass panel behind the stove and the final five electric blinds on the third floor.
- After reading a scary article, we bought a kit and cleaned the dryer vent. I'm not in the market for a house fire.
- We had to cut the railing on our spiral stair in order to clean the house air intake filter
Outdoor Projects
- On the roof, we put in a second heather plant that promptly died in the July heat wave. We also moved a boxwood to make room for a Japanese maple. We also put in a Raspberry Crape Myrtle and <something with red berries> bushes and some blue spruce sedum.
- Down on the parking strip we planted white and pink symphony snowberry bushes in October. The dogwood tree might have died in the heat wave too. Time will tell.
- We assembled and reinforced the roof pergola
- In the trough off the boite we planted a little sweet bay tree in February
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