New Year, New Camera

Well, I have photos of the finished kitchen wall, among other things, but our camera decided it had had enough, and quit working. I guess the shock of actually having to take pictures every day (we're terrible about remembering to take pictures, ask the kids' grandparents) just wore the on/off switch right out. I put off looking for a new one until after Christmas, just in case Santa brought one :) . Now it's January, and the pictures are stuck in the camera, and I need to decide whether to get it fixed or start over. I think I'll talk it over with Mike while we're playing pool in the new basement. Thanks to the 4-ft stairway and the new, very level floor, Mike's Christmas present fit very well in the new "man cave" in the basement. I love saying "in the basement"!
I put away all the Christmas things down there for the first time, and have so much room in the rest of the house, I'm not sure what to do with it. I even went through all the other closets and hiding places in the house and moved all the things that belong in a basement, to the basement. Boxes of kid's clothes, sleeping bags, Green Bay Packer things I wouldn't let Mike put up in the bedroom, y'know, normal stuff.
The best news is, with the price of LP dropping and our draft-proof foundation, we're saving $100 a month on our heat bill. Hooray! The basement's actually the warmest level in the house, since we have a couple of rooms left to fix on the upper levels, and can tell which way the wind is blowing by the temperature of the rooms. Ah well, that's why it's a 20-year project!