Health and home

Mike had a visit with the oral surgeon on Monday. He's healing well, and the biopsy came back clear, so he's in good shape. I hadn't mentioned the biopsy on here before, just because. Fortunately, there's nothing to worry about.

And now Noel and I are having our own issues. He's been limping since yesterday, and today he held his leg and said "hurt." Also yesterday, something happened to my right pinkie toe. I have no idea how I hurt it, but it's bruised all around, swollen and painful. Very strange.

On the house front, the chimney is finished and looks beautiful. Getting rid of that nasty red has greatly improved the appearance of the entire house. Here is how it looks now:

And for comparison, a really "before" picture, taken just before we bought the house in September 2000:

[Shudder] I hadn't looked back at this roll of pictures in a long time. Wow, we've done a lot of work on this house! Maybe some day I'll add more photos of the house before and after to Picasa. Some of you may not have seen all the changes we've made, and some might just want to relive such special memories as the (badly painted) bright blue garage doors, fuschia playhouse trim, fake parquet and fake flagstone carpets, gun racks in the basement, and the Schlitz light fixture. Actually, all of the light fixtures were hideous. And yet, despite all of the renovation, our to-do list remains a mile long. It never ends.