Memorial Day Weekend

Dad came in on Friday night and went up to the house early to try to beat the storm we could see coming. He had his lawn tractor with him. He got the yard and the corral mowed before and after the storm. Then he got busy with his apprentices for the day fixing the south kitchen wall.

The completed wall...

The upstairs bathroom was totally taken out and this weekend, Christopher, Dad and Charles had fun with big Bertha taking out the first three joists. The remaining joists had to be scabbed on to, covering some very bad past plumbing decisions...especially since I have a whirlpool tub going into the master bathroom!

The old joists come down. Even though they were in rough shape, it still shook the house when they were beating them down.

To hang the joists, Christopher stood on one side holding it up with a rope...

While Charles came up from below on the big ladder and got it into the pocket in the wall with guidance from Dad.

Then the subfloor went down in the space for the bathrooms and we really started taking some steps forward...




Then the upstairs hall went up along with the linen closet and Teddy doorway and closet.



End of day 1...

By the end of the weekend, we had the hallway done, the door to the bathroom framed in, our closet done, Teddy's closet done and Charles started to fir out the bathroom...It was exciting to see our visions for our home start to take shape.