Day 375

Today the first dumpster of 2010 was delivered to our backyard. :D A plan that is ever changing.... We had not planned on getting a dumpster this weekend. We were going to get the water hooked up to the outside. This would make gardening much easier. We were all getting tired of carrying buckets of water down from 2nd floor. That is how the day started out. Jonathan was in the basement checking things out and starting to remove the old pipe. When the washing machine started to drain the water and he was there for the full sound and sight of the water leaking. So we changed plans midmorning. There has been a bit of a water leak for months now, down in the first floor kitchen and into the basement. But with the cold and freezing we chose not to worry about it at the time. But decided that today was the day that would change.

Over the last month or so, I had started to empty out some of the boxes into the cabinets in the kitchen, but now I had to put all of that back into boxes. :P So much for moving out of Box World. Now the dining room is again filled with boxes.

The first thing in the dumpster was the cabinets from the first floor kitchen. Those were some heavy things. It is great that we can just drop things off of the kitchen porch. Tomorrow is going to be filled with knocking down plaster and lathe. Which will hopefully lead to finding where we need to work on the pipes.

This wall had cabinets on the brown area as well as over the door and along that wall. There was also counter and sink along this wall. We took all of it out and put it in the dumpster. Then just for fun I knocked down a little of the plaster to expose the lathe you see here.


The first small pile of plaster waiting to be taken out to the dumpster.

The dumpster a couple of hours after it was delivered. These are all of the kitchen cabinets.

After the work in the kitchen we put a cable on our clothesline and hung out a load of laundry.

It was a busy day. Jonathan finished by mowing the lawn. Then before quitting for the night, we put some wire screen up in the ceiling where the squirrel has been coming through. At least he won't got there, but I am sure there are other places that he can make it across.

The bee-man was here while Jonathan was mowing. He said that he wouldn't be able to move them (he was hoping to take our honey bees) so instead tonight he will exterminate them. We are going to be so happy not to have those bees buzzing around outside and even more happy not to have them in our bathroom. :D Of course this mean more work and a bit more change...we will have to get all of that honey out of our wall or something else will just come to take the place of the bees. So I guess that might be what we are working on tomorrow.