Day 136

It was Cub Scout Open house night. So we played a few games and had some yummy homemade ice cream. :)

Day 135

Today we stayed in Hickman and did some planning...

Day 134

Jonathan worked on the bathroom a little bit today. But found that there were still a couple of things we needed to hook up the water.

Then we hauled out a bit of trash to the dumpster. And took all of the tools back to the basement. We are clearing out the main landing room on second floor. So we can put the table back in there. This will let us start to set up the kids' rooms.

Day 133

Yay! Jonathan got our new gas stove hooked up. Now we can do some real cooking at the new house. We are so excited. :D One more step in getting closer to move in. Next on the list is the rest of the bathroom.

We have stove, we have gas, we have fire... now what should we cook?

While Jonathan was working in the kitchen, I knocked the plaster down on another of the small walls in the tower room. When the walls are between 2 and 3 feet wide it doesn't really feel like I am making any progress. There are so many walls in that room. ;) But the hardest part of the work is carrying all of the plaster downstairs and out to the dumpster. With Jonathan's help we got all of the plaster that we had knocked down carried out to the dumpster.

Day 132

This evening we downloaded a program to help us figure out our heating. We put all of the numbers and measurements into the program and let it do the calculations for us. The good news is that we might actually be able to do the heating system the way that we had wanted to. So now it is on to the other numbers... $$ See how much this will cost and if we are going to be able to get it up and running before winter.

Day 131

We started off the day by going to Menards. We wanted to buy our stove/oven. We were lucky to find an even better one then the first one we had seen that was on sale. :) While there we also wanted to check the price on lots of other things. When we had all of the numbers written down, we loaded up the stove and headed over to Beatrice. We got it up to second floor and Jonathan figured out what parts we would need to buy to hook it up. We loaded up and headed over to Ace.

We had another Girl Scout activity today. Ella was Bridging to Juniors.

Then we went back to Beatrice. We got up on the roof and checked out what the Mansard part of our roof looked like. Because parts of the roof are still leaking we need to figure out what we are going to do. This one of the thing we were pricing at Menards.


This is the first layer of stuff that Jonathan pulled off of the roof.

In this picture you can see the second and third layer of roofing material on our roof. Jonathan took off the green asphalt shingles. But we left the round wooden ones. We are thinking about putting the round kind back up. But we need to do some more calculations and planning.

After this we went down to the second floor tower room and knocked down some more of the plaster.

And now it is time for all of those calculations. :) Lets hope we get everything planned out.

Day 130

Saturday... good old weekends. Mom and Dad worked on getting a new door knob and lock on the basement door. Jonathan and I were knocking down the walls of the bathroom in the tower room on second floor. We have really been making messes again.


The first part of the bathroom destruction...


Stage two of the destruction. We even got a lot of the rubble carried out.

We would have made an even bigger mess but our dumpster will not be delivered until Monday. But we did get a lot of the bathroom destroyed. Then we worked at getting the nails out of the wood. We are planning on burning the wood this winter in the wood stove. Jonathan cut it up into the right size pieces and we stacked it up. We were hoping to get a new stove for the kitchen. But when we went to look at what they had at Sears, we decided we would wait until we got back to Menards.

We had to leave a bit earlier than we might have as we got to go swimming with Ella and Melinda's girl scout troop. :) Go home get cleaned up and bake cina-knots. Time for some fun.