many, many things

there's been a lot of fixing around here already.  some, like replacing electrical boxes and chimney flashing, are wonderful to cross off of the list but not so exciting to document.  

however, check out our new front door - better, right? tom scraped it and stripped all of the old paint off and even managed to get the painted-over doorknob diamond thing back to it's shiny brass self.  and we replaced the silk vines stuffed in styrofoam with actual snake plants in the planter.