Don't try this at home.

Heavy duty soldering tools.

Here I am again with another update from the past week or so. Since we left off.....

We put in all the new vinyl floor tiles!



Almost done picture.Dad proved to be a man of many talents. He's an electrician...
And a plumber...
Here's the new plumbing for the bathtub/shower in the main bath.

He was also a sheetrocker. Here he's putting in waterproof/moldproof sheetrock that should have been put in years ago.

Mom turned into our sheetrock mudder person. She looks rather menacing.

The sheetrock sanding tool was fun. It had a vacuum attachment so we didn't get dust everywhere. It had so much suction that it stuck to the wall.
Mike also got to sheetrock mud the seams in the paneling.
Look how many patches were needed in the old green bedroom. That bulit-in-desk was once again glued, cemented, welded, tacked, stapled, screwed, nailed, and painted to the wall.

I got to do many jobs. I tore off all the window/door trim since we're getting new stuff. Not sure why I look so happy about it...
And help primer paint the bedrooms
Mom also helped primer the old "den" room.
See how fun it is?
I also got the den completely painted a few days ago. It is now light green. The pictures don't do it justice.

Almost done!
We also bought a new door threshold for the front door. Mike worked on getting that to fit and be the right size. I've started staining the bathroom cabinets and the old green bedroom is primed and ready to paint tomorrow. The new green bedroom (the old "den") is ready for floor stain, trim, and touch-up ceiling paint. The bathroom has been sheetrock mudded but still needs a few more coats before we can paint it. I picked out a kitchen paint color and hopefully we'll get to have that painted soon - our appliances arrive on Wednesday!

Look for another update after this weekend!

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...