Today started with the goal of having the cleanest garage on Comet Circle. All the "nice" things left to us by the previous owners - washer, dryer, Entertainment Center, fake wood, shelves, dead tree, "Matt's Painting", sheetrock and who knows what else all went into the dumpster today. Now the garage is ready to store some of our belongings from our current house. You are probably wondering what "Matt's Painting" is/was. There was a 4 foot by 6 foot painted "thing" in the garage. Yesterday Matt said he wanted it. Today I threw it away. After he finished cleaning out the garage he said "mom, where is my painting" Ooops I thought he was joking. Unfortunately it was buried in the dumpster and not salvageable. But I did capture it in the before picture.
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You can't see the full "beauty" of Matt's Art but you get the drift. It was ugly! |
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It's all gone now. |
The neighbor of the day today was David. He lives two doors down from us with his wife. He referred to himself as the "old timer on the block". He has a daughter who lives on Williston just down the hill from our Hightower house. What a small world.
Today was another day of demo too. Today's area of destruction centered around the fireplace and Master Bedroom. We have never seen an uglier fireplace so we started tearing it out. "Uncle Art" Mark's best friend since 6th grade was our helper in the morning.
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Only Art has a hard hat in his car. |
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Who installs a fireplace hearth over carpeting. Apparently it can be done |
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It was really nice carpeting! |
It all went well until we ran into giant screws that will take some effort to remove. So we took a lunch break and then moved on to the Master Bedroom. The closet was almost the same size as the bedroom and there were double sinks out in the main part of the bedroom that had to go. We are relocating the closet into space over the garage so we can add a window for more light.
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It was a really nice blue but not for MY bedroom. Mark is in the closet. |
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Matt aka "Tetanus Cheeks" was happy to help destroy something. |
He should have been a little more careful when he fell onto the pile of debris so that he didn't drive a nail into his butt cheek. If you see him favoring the left side, you will know why.
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Nothing will stop him with a power tool in his hand. |
First the closet was removed....
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Isn't that vanity just lovely! NOT |
then the vanity and sinks.
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It was great fun sawing it apart. |
As the boys destroyed I carried the fruits of their labor to the dumpster. It is taller than me so after a short bit it was getting hard to toss the stuff up over the side. If only I was taller, I thought to myself. So I found a milk crate to stand on. It was so much easier being a foot taller.
We only had two other injuries today. Matt attempted to throw the towel rack onto the pile but hit Mark in the head instead. Luckily no blood. Mark didn't want me to feel left off the injury list so he dropped the wrecking bar just close enough to me to land on my ankle. Man that hurt. The marriage-o-meter took a momentary plunge down to 37 but he helped me move the piles out so we are back in the upper 90's (I do have a scab where he made me bleed so we can't get back to 100 yet!)
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All done for today. Just taking out a couple remaining screws. |
After we got these sinks out we realized that the plumbing running through the kitchen sofit was for these sinks that we are removing so we won't need to move them. More demo!
We locked the house all up and were heading back to Hightower but first we had to look a the roof one more time. We are deciding if the addition for the master bath and new closet will be able to be completed within the existing roof or if we will add dormers or some other structure to the garage roof to bring in some light. While we were looking a cute squirrel scampered across the garage. He hesitated a bit about half way across and then continued on (away from the trees towards the 2 story drop off). We watched him and wondered where he was going. Much to our amazement he climbed up the chimney and crawled into the hole in the siding near the top. We waited.... and waited.... and waited but he didn't come out. We decide he can "stay with us" till we re-do the siding then we will have to evict him.
for those of you wondering about yesterday's ant here's a couple pictures:
Mark killed and cleaned up most of them yesterday. This is what was left this morning. Some were alive so we sprayed again early in the day then cleaned all the dead ones up right before we left tonight. We will see if any survive until tomorrow. Wonder which of God's creations will be found in the house tomorrow?
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