We have been working hard at the
Boston house. We can only get out there on Saturdays but we are still
making progress. Over the course of 2 weekends, Josh and my dad and
Bryan took turns using the demo hammer to get the tile floor up. What a
loud, dirty, sweaty, exhausting job that was!
My
dad has spent many hours in the master bath fixing a leak and preparing
the shower space for a new shower that is not quite to same size. He
had to jackhammer through the concrete and dig in the dirt under the
foundation to get to the leak. There was a pile of dirt as tall as
Claire in the bathroom at one point.
Josh
kept busy this last weekend taking out cabinets in the garage and
taking siding off the wall in the garage so we can put drywall up
instead so it will be up to fire code. (The garage was a carport that
the previous owners enclosed.) He also mowed and took out the dog run,
chain link fence.
The weekend that it rained a lot, my mom and I pulled a TON of weeds.
We got 3 of the tarps full.
We
have also been prepping the walls for paint. Apparently, the previous
owners have never heard of bulletin boards and felt a need to hang
thousands of things up on the walls with push pins.
I was hoping the purple room was not as bad as the teal room but it was definitely worse.
I
was pulling a painted-over staple out of the wall in the purple room
and it pulled up the paint around it like a little bubble. I went to
pull the bubble off and the paint kept peeling away from the wall!
Before
we knew it, the paint had to be pulled off the entire wall! It slowed
us down A LOT. What kind of paint just peels up like that? Ridiculous!
Most
weekends Josh's parents watch the girls for us which is a HUGE help.
This last weekend though they weren't able to but since the noisy work
was done and it was cooler outside we brought them with us. They played
in the backyard and wandered in and out of the house throughout the
day. They were good for 5 hours!
Then Claire stood on an ant hill and got bit a few times and my work day was done.
Next on the list is painting the inside and installing new windows.
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