Day 55

Mom and Dad stayed over to help us some more today. Dad wanted to use up the rest of the tin and see how much of the roof we still had left. When he had used up all of the tin, there was only a 40 inch by 16 foot strip left. Next time he comes up it should be no problem to finish the roof as there won't be any corners, bends or triangle pieces.


Here is Mom working in the tower room.

Look at some of the mess we had to clean up. :( And this is only a small part of the mess we make in each room when we tear down the plaster and the lathe. I like cleaning up the lathe much more then the plaster. We can just toss it out the window then walk down to the ground and start picking up the sticks. Plus it is much lighter to carry then the plaster is.

Then we spent some more time working up on the plaster and lathe on third floor. Even Zeb and Ella got to help with this. We had them loading up the buckets. Grandpa was lowering them out the door and down to the ground where Grandma and I unhooked them and carried them to the dumpster. The kids were not fast enough, so Daddy had to finish loading up the buckets. Wow were we tired. We didn't quite get all of the plaster out that we had knocked down. But we were ready to stop.Here is the room again after we have cleaned up most of the mess. :D Wow does it look better.

This is the great wallpaper that we found hidden under layers of paint in the third floor tower room.

Grandpa and Grandma headed home to Worms. And we decided to take the kids to a movie. We went to see Up. That was a good movie. It did make me sad. His house reminded me of our new house.