Day 214

Today we finished getting the plaster and nails off of the walls and ceiling in the landing room. There wasn't much left. But there is a lot of going up and down ladders.

Then we went into Lincoln to buy the lights for the landing room. We are going to be putting up a ceiling fan in the middle of the room and a light in the area near all of the doors. I am always excited when we get to the point of buying things like this. But know that we still have all of the drywall to put up before we can actually put the lights up.

Day 213

Today I was feeling very tired. So mostly we took a day off. We need to rest up for the weekend's work.

Day 212

We worked a bit more on the third floor. But still have a bunch to go. We had cub scouts this evening. So it was a slow day, workwise.

Day 211

The kids and I were working up on third floor again today. The weather has been pretty warm. And I really would like to fill the dumpster a bit more before we send it back. And of course, it would also be nice to get all of the plaster and insulation out of the third floor so we won't continually be making a mess as we carry it through second floor. We have most of the plaster and lathe off of the walls on the landing room on third floor. That means that there is really only one room left to work on. Then we will have to start on the ceiling. That will be the really messy part.


This is the 3rd floor landing room. There is still some lathe on the top part of the walls. For me to get that down, I need to carry up a ladder. But we are still using them on 2nd floor. I hate carrying things up and down the stairs. So I will do all of the low work first. When there isn't anymore I guess I will have to bring up the ladder.

Day 210

The kids and I started carrying some more buckets of plaster down from third floor. I had almost decided that we just wouldn't be able to get this done before I want to send the dumpster back. But I just don't like to give up. The kids have been wonderful helpers. I know that I wouldn't be able to do it without their help.

Thank you Zeb, Ella and Melinda! You are all of my angel helpers.

Day 209

There are just so many things for me to do during the day, I just don't even know where to start. So today, I mostly tried to think about just what I thought I might be able to do. And then I decided to start knocking a bit of plaster down on third floor. Whenever you don't know what to do, just find a wall and start hitting it with a sledge hammer. ;) This bit of direction will work for a while longer. But hopefully sooner or later we will have knocked down all of the plaster. Well, it might be later, as we haven't even started down on first floor.

Day 208

Well this morning we worked just a bit in the landing room on second floor. We finished taking down the last bit of plaster on the stair wall. And I also worked on getting some of the nails out so that everything will be ready to put the drywall up.

Then in the afternoon, we headed back to Hickman for the last and final load. We had the kids' space dome to bring and just a few misc. things. But YAY, everything is out of the old house. And the best news yet, is that LuCinda might be able to just buy the house, instead of the rent to own agreement that we had worked out. That would be so wonderful. :)