Destruction Days

Memorial Day Weekend!!!

Front bedroom chimney

Living Room looking into front bedroom

I am strong man...I hold up walls!!

After helping the twins and TLee move Nancie on Saturday, Kade and I took a quick trip to Lowe's. Got some sturdy gloves for me, a heavier hammer for wall demolition, some face masks, Gatorade, lumber, and a flag to put up for Memorial Day weekend. The weather wasn't too warm--about 80 degrees with a breeze which was nice. Here's the weekend breakdown:

Saturday:

• First thing we did was put the flag up on the porch!
• Sarina and Kris came out to visit, as did Aaron, Cindy and Aaron's dad, and Anthony and Nancie.
• We got the 1st room basically to its frame on the inside (we still had the ceiling to go and a little border around the top edges).
• We had two of the main walls on 2nd room gutted on the inside to about 6ft up, and we had the hallway gutted.
• Start time: 2:00 p.m. Quittin time: 9:30 p.m.
  

Sunday:

• Kade knocked out the ceilings in the 1st and 2nd bedrooms making himself look like a chimney sweep, lol!! The 12ft ceilings look amazing!!! 1st room almost complete.
• I knocked out the remaining 2nd bedroom walls and the hallway up to 6ft.
• Kade gave me the worst job on the planet (he said so himself)--removing staples from the floor in the 3rd bedroom. I pulled maybe 7 complete staples out on the first try. The rest ended up looking like little staple trees growing out of the floor.
• Some ceiling tiles are out of the kitchen and the tiles were shuffled to the porch. Kade took down the small set of cabinets in the kitchen and they are now in the backyard as our lawn decorations.
• We have the wheelbarrow pattern down to a science: I use one wheelbarrow for wood slats, the other for plaster rubble and debris. I load them up and Kade dumps them for me. Trust me, we'd still be working on the 1st room or I would be buried in the dumpster if I tried to dump a wheelbarrow full of plaster!!
• Shon, Laura and Miss Kendall stopped by to check out the house and brought delicious Sonic dinner for us! Kendall left with a few rocks for her rock collection.
• Start time: 9:30 a.m. Quittin time: 9:30 p.m. because I didn't have Memorial Day off...
  

Monday:

• Kade did a LOT of work at the house while I was at work!!
• He pulled most of the kitchen paneling off (revealing a wall with about 100 phone numbers on it--guess someone didn't believe in wasting trees.)
• He removed the remainder of the kitchen and laundry room ceiling tiles and he knocked out the wall between the kitchen and the laundry room.
• He worked on getting the tack strip off in the 3rd bedroom and some of the paneling.
• We went over to Aaron and Cindy's for a cookout about 4 p.m.--it was nice to celebrate a little on Memorial Day!!
• After the cookout we went to work cleaning the debris in the 1st bedroom, laundry room, and hallway. Kade moved insulation so we could have a pathway through the kitchen.
• Kade knocked out the top wall portion in the living room that leads to the front room--so we have our first wall that's completely gutted on both sides!!! Looks like we're having a weird barn raising or something.

Well, that's about it for the nice 3 day weekend! We're proud of everything we were able to accomplish working by ourselves and we didn't mind that we were covered in dirt, plaster dust, and soot cause we had fun!