We have lived in our little house for 13 and a half years, and in this 60-year old house we have lived with the original windows which would never open. My wife hated it.
And so, with our very sizable (for us) tax refund this year (it's about Obamacare subsidies, not Trump's tiny tax cut), she finally put her foot down and said that she wanted new windows. I was fine with the idea...but she had to do the legwork of getting it done. So she got four bids, settled on the one she liked, and a month after the windows were ordered today they came to install them. While they still have to do some of the finishing work on the outside of the house, the new windows are now in.
Once it gets warmer (today it only got up to 45 degrees...nice job, spring!) we can finally open our windows. But tonight we are recognizing that we forgot one thing...we have no curtains! We decided to ditch the old mini-blinds that we had over each of them, but we didn't get far enough in figuring out what we wanted to do before today. So tonight we sit here with wide-open views to the same world that can look at us. No sex tonight, I guess...
But I'm really proud of my wife for getting this done. I am usually the one who has to get these kinds of things done, but she has done a great job (with the exception of the curtains!) on this. She, too, owns this house, and now she has put her stamp on it in a strong way.
If Obamacare survives another year, I want a kitchen remodel. Hopefully that will be our 2020 project. By the time all is said and done our old house will be almost as good as new.
