Day 482 - 483

We worked up on the third floor again this weekend. We got the rest of the studs down in between the girls' rooms and the bathroom. Then we started working on getting all of the nails out of the boards. Some of them we will be putting back up to form the wall. The rest of them will be cut up to use as fire wood this winter. We also removed the lathe nails from the ceiling and walls in the landing room and Zeb's room. We are planning on getting another dumpster this weekend so that we can get everything cleaned up and start the 'fun' work. When it got to hot Sunday afternoon/evening Jonathan and I went down the the first floor kitchen. We removed the nails from a large pile of lathe. Then we started to cut them into pieces that would fit into our wood stove. These pieces of old wood make starting the stove very easy. After the pieces were cut to the right size we tied them in bundles with twine. We still have a lot of them to do. But we will be very happy for all of these cut and bundled lathe firestarters once winter is here. Saturday afternoon (when it was hotter then we wanted to work) we took a trip into Lincoln. We found a couple of lanterns at Goodwill that we are going to use as the light fixtures in Zeb's room. And we checked out the attic fans at Home Depot. We will be putting one of those in very soon now.