These are bits and pieces from our kitchen floor! Curious as to when exactly the house was built, this gives us a closer answer. The newpaper is 1884! The paper was between layers of flooring in the kitchen. The old linoleum was under the cast iron kitchen sink cabinet. So a bit of history is always fun. Dave plans on keeping the old newspaper between some glass for preservation.
In the midst of chaos! Dave went to work one day in the middle of the roof, as usual. Christina's son was planning on a surprise for Dave and had planned to come up in the middle of the week to do some rip out. Nick was running late and Christina looked up to see Dave coming through the door BEFORE lunchtime! No sooner did Dave walk in Nick did too. Surprise was blown! But why was Dave home? His boss and co-workers had a fishing trip planned out on the Atlantic in the boss's boat! Dave was one of a very small handful that had been invited! He was home to get his fishing rod! As you can see he got lucky...so to speak! AND the only one to catch a 'keeper' AND the first one to ever catch ANYTHING on that boat! So he won!Proud of it too as you can see. He for sure has bragging rights now!
The hardest part of all was to put the rafters in! Especially alone! This was extremely tiresome and monotonous to watch. Weather-wise Dave and Christina got purdy dern lucky! they had mostly smooth sailing. When there was threat of rain, they cut open garbage bags and covered everything from the kitchen and wrapped plastic grocery sacks over any electrical outlets. It only rained twice, one was very brief! Oh what a mess! They had wet cellulose insulation remnants clinging all around, brown icicles formed in the freezer from dirty water dripping through..you get the idea! Christina frantically swept the puddling water off the new particle board on the dining room floor! Cooking wasn't of much an option..dirt, flying dust, unorganized chaos at best!It was horrible and it didn't get completely for several weeks. A very trying time!
