As of this weekend we’ve got the lights up on the house and yard. The Christmas tree is in the corner of the living-room. Lorna has decorated the house with all the various bits of Christmas cheer.

I still have a few lights to finish up on the lower front of the house. One string failed to light this year (led lights too) and we came up short on the far end of the house last year but just let it go. This year we picked up a couple more reels of lights to fix that.

Spent a chunk of the weekend replacing the in-law apartment water heater. It has been leaking quite a bit for a couple of weeks now. Not a huge problem as it is in the furnace room in the garage and the water runs into the garage floor drain but it clearly couldn’t go on that way forever.

Found that quite a few gallons of water had leaked out into the space between the tank and the insulation in the old heater. I wound up cutting a hole in the side with the angle grinder to let that water out before lifting it over the gas line to get it out. Glad to have that done now but it put off those last strings of lights a little.

Looking forward to having Alyssa back home for Christmas time. Lorna went out to Great Lakes fo a visit but I haven’t had a chance. Lys has grown so much since she joined the navy…I’m very proud of my girl.