May 28th, 2007
May28th
Troy and I spent Saturday and Sunday removing the oak hardwood flooring on the main floor…we started in the dining room and that is as far as we got on Saturday…Sunday we started in on the kitchen…I stepped on a nail quite early (like in the first five minutes), but carried on anyway…’cuz I am tough like that!
We ended up with 2 huge piles of wood strips full of nails in the kitchen…my plan is to have the kids haul it all out to the fire pit so we can burn it. Sounds mean doesn’t it!!
I have offered to any neighbors that would like some strips to replace any of their flooring that may have been damaged etc over the years…but it became clear to me that it was going to take me considerably more time to remove this floor if I was to be trying to remove it without damaging it…so I stopped trying too hard and just went for it…there are still lots of pieces actually, and I have 2 neighbors who would like some…so that is good! I am so happy to recycle as much of this house as I can…
By the evening…it was painfully clear that my foot is now infected…swollen and red…extremely sore…Blah blah blah…but it did not stop me from attending the evening festivities at Vicki’s
Not to worry (especially you Mom)…I awoke this morning with my foot feeling much better…it takes more than a little flooring cleat to take this good strong canadian girl down
It is still sore and swollen and red, but much better which says to me that I am winning the war…the body is an amazing thing! I can walk and everything and in fact was able to get a whole bunch of weeding in the yard done…So the armchair doctor (that is me) says I am good to go…
Here are some pictures of my worker bees…
It took these five young industrious children about 45 minutes to do what would have taken me all day…so I owe them!
No really…I do owe them…(money talks!)
We got about half the flooring out…so there will be more work, for any young interested parties!!
I am going to Camp Casey with Rachael on Wednesday am and we will not be back until Friday night…so if I do not get a post up tomorrow, they you won’t hear from me again until the weekend. I will try to remember to get a photo of our GORGEOUS new roof in the morning and post it so you can see…It looks amazing (to me anyway–and all the neighbors that have called and come by to weigh in). We are very happy…It did rain here on Saturday night and we had major leaking…but that is to be expected when you have a heavy rain and open holes in the roof…no harm no foul though.
