Here is the progress from the weekend...

1. Weed whacking and mowing the jungle that is the yard.

I tried getting this done, but ran out of weed whacker thread about 2 minutes after starting. We picked more up so that will be done tonight dammit!

2. Making something to hold the firewood and moving the wood from being scattered across the driveway to one neat spot near the house.

Not a damn thing done on this. It's in the works for the week.

3. Prime the kitchen and paint the trim something quite obnoxious. This is not the permanent, this is just to amuse ourselves while we work on the rest of the house. We have to get at least one room de-old-ladied just for sanity’s sake

We've primed and painted the entire kitchen at this point. We have some cut work on the trim left to do tonight and the kitchen is done.

4. Also in the kitchen, get rid of the disgusting under counter coffee maker from 1972 and install a temporary shelf in that area to put the microwave on.

Ok, this is done and slightly different. Coffee maker is gone, shelf is installed but the microwave doesn't fit on it due to restrictions from the cabinets that it is attached to. So the toaster oven will live there with the microwave on the counter underneath.

5. Final item in the kitchen, move the credenza I used to put the snake on into the kitchen for more counter space and paint it the crazy color to match the temporary kitchen.

This has been put on hold until we get the livingroom slightly organized since it's almost impossible to get to the credenza at this point.

6. Put plans together for the shoring up of the living room wall and built in entertainment center including pricing out the materials and tools.

We actually have a good game plan for the livingroom. We spoke with our across the street neighbor and he's going to help us get that done either by going through the subfloor and putting the beams into concrete footers in the crawlspace or if we get lucky, the original joist that the beam was connected to is still there and we can attach the support beams there.

7. Get washer and dryer working. Washer is finally working after getting some new hoses because our old ones decided to be leaky bastards. We got the exhaust tube for the dryer last night only to come home and find out the plug for the dryer does not match the outlet. We’ll need to get an adapter this weekend.

We had to get a new pigtail for the dryer and after much calling around and bugging the neighbor behind us, I finally got the new pigtail installed. We finally have a working laundry room!

8. Take inventory of the entire house

a. where outlets & light switches are
b. what windows need to have the weights fixed
c. what windows need to have the locks replaced
d. what windows need to have nails and/or paint removed
e. what windows need to have storm windows
f. what windows need to have screens
g. what wood we are saving/removing paint
h. measurements of each room for floor plan

This hasn't been touched yet, on schedule for Tuesday.

Tonight we should be able to have the weed whacking and kitchen done to the point where we'll take some more pictures so everyone can get a good look at what we've done so far. The best part of the entire project this weekend?

WE HAVE 2 WORKING WINDOWS!!!!!!!

That is all.

-Tina

posted by Unknown @ Monday, June 12, 2006