Home repairs

I'm hoping to get a reverse mortgage to pay for Howard's continuing care.  This means sprucing up the old place to get a good appraisal, and of course to get the house safe for the winter.  At the moment a handyman is busy caulking some of the windows that needed it.  I'm hoping he's solved the Mystery Leak into the kitchen, which is directly below these windows.  He'll also put in a second safety rail on one set of interior stairs so that Howard can use both hands to steady himself as he goes up and down.  Howard is not walking well these days.

If we do get a good reverse mortgage, then I can put some of the money into further work on the house.  It's our one big physical assest, though my mass of copyrights do have some value, I suppose.  In our culture, intellectual property has been so systematically denigrated that I doubt if they're worth much.