Saturday, March 22, 2008

Mike gets to use his new drill


This was last week, but I just now got pics. uploaded. While I was cleaning out the refrigerator (it was quite nasty), Mike got to use his new drill to start taking out bathroom cabinets. We're going to replace all the cabinets with some pre-assembled stain-them-yourself ones we found at Lowe's.

Taking out the shelves in the above-the-toilet cabinet. Did you know that the white paint on them was SPRAY-painted on? It's all blotchy and you can see runs.
Hey, where'd the cabinet go?Now he starts in on taking out the stuck-in-cabinet above the stuck-in-counter. This was fun. The cabinet was glued, tacked, screwed, and nailed to the wall. We have some dry wall repair to do.... Mike had to get out his angry face. He finally got the last of it off the wall yesterday.
Now he's starting in on the lower stuck-in cabinet, but that one is nailed to the real cabinet, so that will be fun.

We've also been working on cleaning out stuff in the basement and garage. We got a new garage door installed (it looks great!) and running, and Dad spent most of one day tearing a bigger hole in the side of the garage to put in a REAL side-garage door with a lock on it. It looks great too! Dad also re-wired the garage for more lighting and he re-wired the laundry room so there isn't a switchplate with 34928023 switches on it and you never know which one to flip. Things for the auction are coming along well, though it's hard to see "progress" with cleaning out all the stuff because it's cleaned out and then stuck in a pile somewhere else in the house. It will be good to get this auction over with so we can see an empty house with room to work! I'm sure M&D are anxious to get it over with as well...

We're going back out to the ranch today to work, who knows what adventures lie ahead of us...

Monday, March 3, 2008

Cleaning and an overwhelming amount of stuff

Well I was supposed to go out and help do some cleaning last weekend, but I came down with the flu, so this weekend became cleaning weekend. The kitchen is all cleaned out so I got to scrub down the cabinets inside and out. I kept having this fear that a mouse would jump out at me every time I opened a cabinet door. I actually only found 2 spiders - one alive, one dead. Oh, and 2 crickets. I still have to do the oven (it's pretty disgusting), sink, counters, and fridge. Most everything in the upstairs of the house has been sorted for the auction. M&D are now working on the downstairs (Mike helped with that this weekend) and will soon move to the garage once we get a new garage door in place.

Here are some pictures!

The kitchen filled with lots of questionable cleaning items...
cleaning...ewww


Wow messy dining room and living room!

"What is this?"


EEEK! This has got to go...
And as we were leaving, we saw a bunch of big turkeys in the front yard! I had to take the pic. through the door window because after I opened the door they all ran off.