The paper is coming off in Bailey's room and it is looking MUCH better. I hope to finish peeling paper, and maybe start some plastering before the guys get back from scout camp. I think if this room starts to get cleaned up, the whole house will feel better. Imagine lilac and butter yellow and dragonflies and wish me luck.
Seth and Ben's room, cleaned out. It just needs one crack patched and there is one spot where the plaster needs to be fixed. Then, they are headed for butterscotch on the walls, with twig furniture, fish nets and old fishing poles on the walls...
Teddy's room started getting drywall this week! He has bear tracks on his bedding and will get a wainscoat level barn wood with a red drybrushed finish and cream upper walls. His train table will be in the corner.
The kitchen got a back wall this weekend. The doorway that goes into the utility room is what you see in the background and the stove will be centered on the kitchen wall. The ceiling in the kitchen will be made from a pile of bead board that was in the barn. The floor will be tile, something that will pull in the brick and still be warm.
I caulked the crown molding and painted a section of this wall this week. It looks so nice and warm. The woodwork will be uniform throughout the house and will remain about the same color. Mom gave me a tip to make the paint stick, so I will be applying a flat Kilz and then the trim paint. This room needs a little more work, but is coming along.
We have a working toilet. Do you have any idea how nice a working toilet is? I will keep the pattern on this floor and probably paint the walls a light cream since the room does not have a window. This room will utilize a dresser from the house with a vessel sink and faucet. The mirror will be one that was on a dresser that we did not save. So this room will be recycled.
Here is our ghost hunting team! They came at 6:00 to get the layout of the house and ask if we had seen, heard or felt anything. They came back at 11:00 with camcorders and tape recorders. They were in the house, barn and grounds for a couple of hours and didn't see or hear anything. We will get their final report once they have listened to their tapes and done their review.
Mom and Dad taking a much deserved break after spending 8 hours working in the yard. Dad came down with his tractor. They cut small trees, sprayed 8 gallons of poison ivy and weed killer, dragged the trees to a burn pile, mowed the yard, around the barn and the corral and cleared out the rest of the stuff that was in the yard. The yard looks incredible. I can't wait to see what it will look like after a couple years of regular care. They came early on Sunday morning and spent two and a half more hours sweeping the stairs, setting up for the party, cleaning off the front porch and filling in the ruts.
Teddy spent some time on Saturday scrapping wallpaper in Bailey's room. We are making some progress in there and I hope to make some good progress while Charles is gone in the bedrooms; especially this one!
We have been so impressed with Seth and Ben. They each have their own cordless screwdrivers, tool belts, hammers and tape measures. They work right along side us making this old house a home. 
After this weekend, Ben loves putting up drywall. He spent several hours putting screws in with his favorite screw gun a Makita cordless.
The top picture is of Jack Bodine in his truck getting the job done. There was a man named Green and one other there as well helping with the auction part. We didn't make nearly as much as we should have, but the stuff is gone and we did have a really good bonfire the next day!!
Destruction in this picture is almost complete. We just need to remove the bathroom ceiling and wall between the furnace and toilet. Wouldn't it be nice if we could keep the whole thing as a kitchen? But then there would be no place for a washer/dryer/hot water heater/water softener... We made a small change in the floor plan for the kitchen/utility room. We added a doorway from the kitchen to the utility room which will allow us to shut the door and keep the laundry pile from being seen in the kitchen. There is a french door that was sitting in the kitchen waiting to be installed at the top of the stairs to go on to the porch that we are going to use half of. I think we will put the opaque glass in it so we keep the light from the two windows cming into the kitchen.
And of course, the obligatory picture of the two little ones playing in the sand with a frog they found. How cute are they!!