Friday, July 30, 2010

Day 474

Wow it has been a long time since I posted anything here.

Mostly it has been hot...

We have done a little bit of work up on the third floor. We are taking some of the studs out. Our plan is to move the bathroom back just a little bit. This will make it possible to make Zeb's room just a little bit bigger and have things in the bathroom set up a little bit more to our liking. As we take down this wall we have been removing the nails so that we will be able to reuse the 2x4's. There are also a few of these studs that have been so damaged by the water leaking in for years that we are going to have to replace them altogether.

We have also been working down in the basement a little. Wow, I like the basement on hot days. ;) It is much cooler down there. We need to get everything set up and usable down in the workshop. We are going to be needing access to all of Jonathan's tools very soon as we start to finish the third floor.

Just a side note:
Yesterday, Jonathan found a dead bat laying on the floor in the doorway to our bedroom. Funny thing is that I had walked passed it several times. I saw something there. It was near a piece of black electrical tape. I hadn't thought too hard about what it was, just thinking it was something to do with that tape. But wow when he told me it was a bat I was a little creeped out. I had been walking passed that barefooted. Ick.. And that brings up the next question... how and when did it die? Our cat likes to 'hunt' things. But as far as we know hasn't actually killed anything. But then did he kill it or did he just bring it down from somewhere? As far as we knew we haven't had any bats for quite a while now.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Day 448

Happy Fourth of July! We are at Mom and Dad's today celebrating with the my Dad's side of the family. We will be home and working again tomorrow. Can't wait to see what we get done. :D

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Day 447

This morning, I worked on the tile up on the third floor. The only room left with tile was Zeb's room. In this room the tile was stuck to the floor with some kind of adhesive. This is good and bad news. The good news is that there was no nails and now no nail holes to worry about. But the bad news is the black sticky stuff that is all over the floor. We have not tried to clean any of this off yet. So I am hoping that comes off rather easily, but that will have to wait for another day. We do still need to haul all of the broken tile down to the trash. But without the wood underfloor this isn't all that much rubble. And the best news of all, is that there is only one more room in the entire house that has tile still on it. The Dining Room. I told Jonathan today, that I almost felt like moving all of the boxes and things out of that room, so I could rip up the tile. It would be a great feeling knowing that we had gotten it all out and were ready to start redoing all of the floors.