Buckets of Fun

If I had a dollar for every bucket carried this weekend to the dump truck…well I’d have a lot of dollars. Well what a weekend it was. After last weekend not being as productive as we hoped for, getting so much accomplished this weekend feels extra good. It wouldn’t have been possible without the extra help we got this weekend either. My Aunt Kathy came up for the weekend, and my goodness we can’t even begin to thank her for her hard labor! It was just good to spend time together, and even through respirators have some good talks and laughs. She had a blast too, she says, so that makes it even better. This work isn’t anything to take lightly, or to dress nice for currently, and she busted walls down like a pro without any complaints! On top of having her Saturday and Sunday, Doodle and Dad helped pull up the false floor upstairs, and take up carpet, and haul wood around. It unbelievable how some extra hands make the process speed up by leaps and bounds, every time someone offers up their well-earned and needed free time it humbles Chase and I. I don’t feel anyone needs to be obligated to help, nor do we expect it. All of our loved ones work equally hard during the week, have chores on the weekend, and need to that time on their weekends to catch up and relax for another long week ahead. We took this endeavor on, and we knew that it was going to mean sacrificing things and our weekends, but we are the ones who decided it and will someday reap the benefits, so that’s why there’s no reason for others to give up their time to us. So like I said it just makes me so thankful and feel so blessed when we have people there. Chase and I will just find ourselves in awe on the rides home, talking about those getting dirty, giving us their time, feeding us, just all of it, it just makes us so aware of how truly blessed we are.

All that seriousness aside, we got so much demolition done this weekend! We have more left, but we are finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel…with demo…which is just the icing, maybe even just the sprinkles, on the top of the cake. Even still with so much ahead, I’m getting very excited about starting to be done with this filthy work. Although its one heck of a workout carrying buckets, pushing wheel barrels, tearing lath down, knocking walls down, digging chinking out, throwing rocks, etc. Also I’m about done with finding snake skins in walls, insulation, and ceilings. Chase finds it hilarious to poke fun at pretending ones about to fall on me, or is behind me.

So here are some before and now’s from this weekend, and general changes happening.

Even these two things, this dump truck, and this water jug, make me thankful for the wonderful people who rented or without meaning too brought them into this project.