This year's toilets

This year our Christmas gift to each other is to level the house.  Not as much fun as a new front sidewalk from last year, or a great window in the dining room the year before, or even the amazing super flush toilets that started this tradition.

But long after I replace the tile, replant the bushes, fill the sink holes that will remain when the dirt around the 18 new piers settles, I will enjoy the doors that open and close and lock, and the cessation of widening cracks in the wall, tile coming off the walls........A stranger walking in will not know the difference....but I will.

Till that time, my spring activity is set:  restore the landscape, tile the patio, patch the cracks, repaint the walls......take hot baths.......dream of a massage......