Day 384

Today while Jonathan was mowing the lawn, the kids and I worked a bit more on the kitchen. I was lowering buckets of plaster to them and they were taking it over to the dumpster. Then I knocked the plaster off of the last wall and took most of the lathe off of that wall.

This is the north wall of the kitchen. You can see that we have all of the plaster and lathe off of the wall and the ceiling. :D

This is the north-west corner of the room.

This is the south-east corner of the room. There is still plaster on part of the chimney and a little on the wall. This is the wall where there is a water leak so it is kind of icky to work with. But Dad and Jonathan found out where the leak is and and ALL we have to do is replace the drain pile. We are thinking of moving it from the exterior wall to an interior wall, if we think it will work. That way there will be no worry about it freezing in the winter.

And as you can see there is still quite a mess in here. But we are all kind of tired so I think the rest will have to wait until tomorrow or the next day. Once we get all of this out I can start taking the yucky tile off of the floor. Not sure I am really looking forward to that, but I keep telling myself, only three more rooms of yucky tile. Once I finish the kitchen there will only be two. :D

Here is the big pile of lathe. There is still just a bit more to remove in the kitchen. Now we need to take out all of the nails and get this stuff cut and bundled and ready for the wood stove. This stuff burns so easily it is nice to have it ready to start a fire. Hopefully we will have all sorts of bundles ready for winter.

Melinda and I dug up a flower we found in the middle of the yard and replanted it in our Fairy Garden. And Jonathan put up another line on my clothes line. :) Now I can do even more laundry at a time. I tested it out this afternoon, with the two lines, I can have three loads of laundry out drying at the same time.

Here is Melinda going around to water all of our flowers and plants.