Thank you, God, for sending us that horrendous winter storm, which resulted in significant damage to my home and thus pushed me past the “maybe someday soon we should update the house” line of thought into the “well, as long as we’re having the ice damage repaired, let’s do those other upgrades we need” decision.

You will recall that we started with new windows last month.  Now we began the major repair/update work:

The contractors are at the door!

1^st day:  The drywall/painting contractor was late, which made me a bit nervous.  But he did apologize when he got here (assistant called off), and went right to work. Two hours later, the huge hole in the bathroom ceiling had been fixed, and you’d never know there had ever been a hole there.  Incredible work!  Now I was really excited to see what he could…