This week Phil and I were able to spend a day working on the house. It was a chilly day, and we actually saw snowflakes...brrr... We started by finishing up the kitchen. It was the usual; cleaned up one mess, so we could make more of a mess. While Phil tore down the ceiling, I cleaned up the closet between the living room and the east bedroom. Then I moved to the bathroom to clean up the floor in there from when Phil tore down the north wall the last time he worked on the house. We were able to finish the kitchen today...woohoo...one more room DONE!! Next, we moved back upstairs to work on the final bedroom. As Phil was prying off the floor board, I was removing trim from around the doors and windows. Phil found some "treasures"! First he found a postcard that was sent to Lizzie Buescher between the wall and floorboard on the south wall, west of the door. This was my great grandpa's only sister! It appears to be postmarked in 1912, and was sent from Iowa. When I shared a picture of the postcard with my great-aunt Colleen, she told me that Lizzie kept in touch with a cousin in Iowa. She also thought the last sentences on the postcard were referring to John's passion for baseball, or a joke between them. It was Phil's day for finding things, as he then found two postcards that appear to have been brought back by Keno (I believe he is a brother of my great-grandpa), from when he was in the service. Phil found these between the wall and the floorboard on the east wall of the bedroom. Keno must've never mailed them. We did not finish the room, but got quite a bit done! Phil raised the loader tractor bucket up to the window, and we dumped the plaster in there, rather than sending it down a shoot into a trailer. This worked well! We are making progress, but have a lot more to do yet! My great-aunt Colleen shared a couple pictures of my brothers and me from our childhood. They were taken in this house's kitchen when we must've been spending time with Colleen; how cool is that?! On my "Home" page I wrote about the memory of Colleen allowing me to decorate a plastic cake cover with frosting when I was a child. In the pictures she shared with me this week, it looks like my brothers and I were supposed to be making frosting flowers on wax paper...think we liked the frosting too much to bother with the flowers!
Picture from Colleen of my brothers and me in the kitchen of this home SEVERAL years ago!
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Time gets away, so I'm going to try to update again. Phil spent a Saturday a couple weeks ago working on tearing out walls. Last Saturday he was able to move items out of the north bedroom, into the southwest bedroom. We can hopefully "tackle" the walls in that bedroom soon. The kids and I enjoyed participating in my niece's 5K, plus it was Halloween! We did work a little in the afternoon, and gave my brother Roger and his family a tour. That morning it was quite fitting for Halloween that Phil discovered a bat in the house. Yuck...not impressed...Phil assures me this problem will be fixed with new siding, roof, etc.. Hope so! On Sunday we got in a few hours of work. I finished up some details in the upstairs southeast bedroom. You think you have a room done, and then you look closer and realize you've left a little bit here and a little bit there. The rest of the time we were all working on the kitchen. Phil brought the loader tractor over this day, to dump our heavy buckets of plaster in. This was amazing in comparison to trying to lift those over the tall edges of the trailer! I am definitely thankful! Connor working upstairs
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