Parents always buy the best Christmas presents. This year, my parents presented me with an early surprise. I am getting a new storm door! There will be no present under the tree this year, but this is perfect.

Our storm door was bent and never was installed right by the PO. It also was a piece of junk. I painted the outside of the front door recently to match the shutters and garage doors. It looks so much better, but it’s still masked by that ugly storm door. You also can’t leave the door open and let a breeze in because it won’t shut completely, and bugs get in. Having a new one (Andersen 2000 series fullview, to be precise) is going to be great. A little tax rebate doesn’t hurt, either.

We made some progress in a few unexpected areas as well. My Dad figured out how to fix the leaky toilet in the kid’s bathroom. We hired a tree company to remove 8 stumps from the property (I’m talking about these, along with a few shrubs). They were working in our neighbor’s yard, so we stopped and were pretty shocked at the good price.

Next on the list is to replace a heating element on our dryer ourselves. It takes 90 minutes to dry a medium size load of laundry on high heat, so something is not right.

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