Some setbacks, and other things.

The auction is DONE! We're still hauling stuff that didn't sell or didn't get picked up from the yard, but it's over and done with - a huge relief. We even made more $$ than M&D "expected" apparently - that means nicer appliances! Maybe.

We started tearing out vinyl flooring in the hallway before D stopped us and said that it might have asbestos in it. Great. Now we get to send each type of vinyl in the house to get tested and hopefully we won't die in the meantime.

We found a stain that we love for the floors, it's going to look REALLY nice with light colored walls and newly painted white trim! I think we also decided just to buy new cheap 6-panel doors instead of painting the existing ones and putting on fake moulding to make them "look" like panel-doors. We really wouldn't save much money that way.

Since we're leaving for PHX this next week, we won't get much done until the end of May. We have a floor sander rented for May 31st-June 1st so we'll get all the floors sanded off by the beginning of June! The next step will be painting the ceiling and doing the walls (we're going to do a plaster-ish textured wall to cover the paneling since the paneling is proving too hard to tear off without destroying the sheet rock underneath). Mike's co-worker used to do plaster finishing for a living, so she has been kind enough to offer advice and says she'll even come help us when we get to that step. After that, we'll stain the floors! In the meantime, we'll have major demolition going on with tearing out the bathroom stuff and putting in everything-new in there.

I hope we don't have many more setbacks. We've also found old termite damage. Who knows if it was ever treated...