Saturday, Day 37

Uh, oh! We thought the floors would all be the same: ugly but solid. Tom took off the carpet in Ted's old room and it didn't look anything like the floor in our bedroom. There was some cardboard-y thing covering the wood. Some of the wood had been slashed to add electrical lines. Some of the boards were creepily soft and bendable. We're probably going to have to call someone to come and look at it. More delays ...

And there's a big stain that we think must have been from a prior shower problem. The shower is just on the other side of that wall. The soft boards are right near the stain, so, I repeat, uh, oh.


Most of the furniture is moved back into our bedroom, but the smell of the new carpet is still stinky, so we'll abide downstairs a mite longer.


Matt came over and helped Tom move some of the heavier pieces out of Ted's room. Moral of the story: always live near people with strong backs. (And if you have a strong back, don't have neighbors!)


Sabbatical Useful Projects Running Total: Started: 12, Completed 11.2.

Friday, Day 36

Well, the color in Ted's room was sort of ewwww-y, so it's back to the drawing board. We picked up a greenish color. Maybe ...


I forgot to post this photo of Tom loading the pickup truck on our way to the dump.

It was a nice sunny day then. But that was then, and today it rained like a son-of-a-gun.


The carpet guy came this morning. Yay! He put in the carpet. Double yay! We snuck a peek at the padding, and even that was vast improvement over the crappy floor.

It's so nice and clean in this picture, isn't it?


This is later, after we had started to move stuff back in ... and then some, because now it's time to do Ted's old room. Chaos rules.

Tomorrow we are going to try to move out all the furniture which we had cleaned out of the other two rooms and moved into Ted's old room. We must have a 1000 books!


Sabbatical Useful Projects Running Total: Started-12, Completed-11(!).