Day 408

Today was a beautiful day. Right around 70 degrees, and cloudy. :D We started out the day, but cleaning up the remaining plaster and insulation from the third floor tower room. Once all of that was in the dumpster, we moved all of the tools and supplies in there so we would work on the landing room. Last fall, the I had gotten most of the plaster and lathe off of the walls. So we started by removing the trim. Then I started on the remaining lathe on the walls and Jonathan started on the ceiling. But we soon discovered that this was going to be a lot more messy than we had hoped for. There was drywall over the plaster on the ceiling. So instead of just taking the plaster down. Cleaning that up. Then working on the lathe and the insulation and cleaning that up. We chose to reek total destruction. Jonathan just pulled it all down on top of us at once. Now this is how my brother likes to do it. But we tend to keep things separated and less messy. So we had to have are goggles, face masks, overalls, hats and gloves on. Now I actually hate those goggles and face mask. The goggles steam up and you can't see a thing. And the face mask, well, I mostly feel like I am suffocating. But this afternoon, being 75% blind and having a serious breathing problem was a good thing. My eyes felt like they were sweating. We had to take a few breaks just to sit out on the roof to breath for a few minutes. But we got most of the ceiling down. I would love to share a photo. But I didn't have my camera up there. We had a total mess of stuff falling down the stairs. So I didn't want to go out and get it. Then we decided we needed to clean some of this up. So we threw out most of the drywall and the lathe from the ceiling. Then we started to bag up some of the insulation and mess. But we were wading in a mess and quickly running out of energy. So we cleared a path down the stairs and went outside to put everything we had tossed out of the door in the dumpster before it started to rain or we fell asleep stand, which ever was going to happen first.

And all I can say now that I am sitting here at my computer is: Boy do I love being able to breathe.