Things are starting to come together very quickly. Two weekends ago a few of us worked most of the weekend to get the reclaimed hardwood cleaned up for the installer who came last week (Mom, Dad, Aunt Shirley, Uncle Al, Uncle Robert, and even Sophie helped out!) For anyone who’s not aware, hardwood floors collect a lot of dirt and other stuff in the cracks over time (especially when it’s been installed for over 100 years) and that needs to get cleaned out before it can get reinstalled. It took us pretty much all weekend, but we were able to get all 1000 sq. ft. of it cleaned up and ready for installation.

With all of the wood cleaned, the installer was able to start laying it down this past Wednesday and he’s making some pretty good progress already. I’m pretty excited to see what it looks like after he gets it sanded off.

As you may have noticed in those pictures, Mom and Aunt Shirley have been working on getting the primer coat of paint on the whole place for the last week and a half. They brought in Aunt Diane, Uncle Duane, & Dad over the weekend and got the finish coat on most of the rooms too! Pretty much the only thing that needs paint yet is the main area (kitchen, dining room, living room).

I took Thursday and Friday off this past week and Uncle Al, Dad, and I spent a majority of the long weekend working on the paver driveway/patio in the backyard. Across the area we dug out at least 12″ of dirt and started replacing it with Class 5 fill, little by little since we didn’t have a huge tamper. We ran out of fill in the late afternoon on Saturday, so we ended up quitting for the weekend, but we’ll get back at it this coming weekend again (and hopefully finish it up).

Also, I said in the last post that I’d get a picture of the grass coming in, so here it is (from last Thursday though, so it’s quite a bit longer now).