Home improvements

Two wonderful home improvements lately. The most delicious so far is the gas fireplace. It makes the living room incredibly cozy! And we care, because it has gotten chilly all of a sudden.

There was a wood fireplace there before, which we had never used. 

Then, just today, we got a new back door. We use the back door as much as the front, and the old one was drafty and hard to open - I was always leaning hard and kicking it to get in. Now we have a smoothly operating, well-built, weathertight door with a window that opens. (Not that we are opening the window currently.)

Now I suppose we need some paint. (The patches on the walls are from when we had lighting installed in, um, 2009? Time flies when you're not noticing the paint.)