Day 77

Today we didn't go over to the house. The kids and I spent the day having fun going to the Children's musuem and the Dinosaur musuem and eating in the park. In the evening Melinda went over to her best friend's house to play. But we will be back to work again tomorrow.

Day 76

The kids and I went over to the new house this morning after Jonathan left for work. The girls were dusting and cleaning the floor in the Green room and the Tower room.



Zeb was helping me. I was taking up the old floor in the hallway. Zeb was filling up the buckets and carrying the rubble down to the dumpster. The floor at the top of the steps is in really bad shape. (Just like we thought) This is were the gutters are bad and pouring water against the house. So there was a lot of damage. The wood floor in the rest of the hallway looks pretty good though.


Here is the really bad part of the floor. :( Wow we are going to have to do something about this.

After Jonathan got home from work we had supper and headed back over to the house. Jonathan and I were working on the bathroom. We were taking down the wainscoting, and starting to knock down the plaster. We might be able to use some of the old wainscoting. A lot of it was damaged by water in some way. But we separated out the good and the bad. We are making progress but still have over half of the room yet to go. Then we have to work on the ceiling.


Here is a picture of the bathroom as we finished working for the night. I had mentioned to Jonathan that if we just knocked down the plaster but left the lathe it would look like we are going to the bathroom in an outhouse. :)

Day 75

Back to work on the bathroom...
Jonathan started out the day by mowing the lawn. While he was outside doing this, I was riping up the tile flooring in the bathroom. We also worked on getting some of the wainscoting off of the wall. When we get all of this off we will be able to get the plaster and lathe off of the wall and ceiling.


Here is the bathroom after we had finished working for the day. What a mess we make...

Day 74

We started the day by filling the back of the van with the boxes of stuff that I have been packing. Once over at the new house we unloaded the van and stacked the boxes up in the dining room. There is starting to be quite a lot of boxes piled up in that room.

Then we started work on the second floor bathroom. Today's plan was to take down the wall where the bathtub used to be and start ripping everything else up in there.

Jonathan pulled the pieces of the wall down and I carried things out to the dumpster. He got the sheetrock off of two of the walls. We still have a lot to do in that room but we have gotten a lot done.

Here is the bathroom after we finished working today. Now you can see the wainscoting that was hidden under the sheetrock. We are not sure how much of this can be saved. But either way we would like to refinish it and put it back in the bathroom or find something similar to replace it.

After lunch I went into the Green Room and finished removing the nails from the floor. This is the room that Zeb is going to be using when we move in. Now all that is left to do in here is wash everything down really well and we will be able to start using this room. :) It actually looks pretty good in there. Jonathan set up the commodore on an old desk in the corner. Zeb is pretty excited about this.

Day 73

The kids and I went to Beatrice to sign-up for swimming lessons. We also got our new library cards for the library in Beatrice. We also went swimming at the pool.

We are giving Jonathan's back one more day of rest. We will be heading over to Beatrice in the morning. Our plan is to work on the bathroom.

Day 72

Jonathan's back is doing much better, but we are going to give it just a day or so more before working over at the house again. Once the sun goes down here a bit, I think I will load the van full of boxes again. So that the kids and I can take another load over tomorrow morning.

Day 72

I know that today isn't over yet, but I thought I would get a head start on the blog. This morning after Jonathan left for work the kids and I went over to Beatrice to unload the things that we had packed yesterday. Once we got everything in the house, I started working on the floor in the 2nd floor tower room. Now that we have the closet and the kitchen wall out of there we can get to the rest of the tile. I got almost half if it pulled up and taken down to the dumpster. Wow was I sweating today. I know that it is work to do, but now that the temperatures have reached normal for summer it really makes a difference. I decided to stop and head back home for lunch.

Oh, the girls and I took some milk out to the baby kittens in the garage. I want to make friends with them. Right now they are still pretty scared of us. But hopefully soon we will be able to hold them.