And he slept through it all...

We had a company come put more insulation in our attic and Andy slept through the whole thing. We had the 1948 recommended amount (or something just under it) and there were several areas without insulation even though the house has tons of other storage space. We couldn't quite afford the DOE recommended amount for our area but we were hoping for more than what builders typically put in these days. So we told them to blow in whatever we can get for X amount which was about half way in between. I think we have felt a difference already.
Last week we had the gutters cleaned (they took out at least 10 gallons worth of stuff and that was WITH having gutter guards on the gutters).
So that is probably it for this semesters worth of actual improvements to the house. Everything else (except for perhaps changing out all of the locks) has been fixing rather than "improvements" to the house. Jim did get the lights put back up in the basement over the weekend...it turns out that the light fixture that fell was a different brand or model or something from the rest and it was REALLY heavy and only being held in with screws that went about half an inch into the ceiling beams. When it fell it ripped down half of the next light that was connected to it. Jim used drywall screws so that sucker ain't moving.