October 10, 2015 We spent a great deal of time at our house this weekend. It was the first weekend we had some available time in awhile. Yesterday, we started after lunch and worked into the evening. It was a nice, cool day to be working; much cooler than the other days we have worked here! We began by cleaning up the main floor southeast bedroom floor. The plaster and lathe were much easier to send down a chute into the trailer from the upstairs bedrooms than carrying by the bucket-ful outside from the main floor bedroom. Phil readied the living room for us, so that we could work on tearing down the plaster and lathe after we finished cleaning up the bedroom. Connor and I tore out much of the plaster and lathe as far up as I could reach in the living room, while Samantha worked on getting off the rest of the woodwork. She had an exciting discovery...on the back of the trim around the southwest living room door she found my great-grandpa's signature (George Buescher), along with his age (61 and 11 months), the date (October 28th, 1961), and the day's weather (60 degrees, cloudy). :) Later, she found another piece of trim that my great-aunt Charlyn had signed with her age (16) on it and the year 1961. She must've been helping her dad with that project! Finding the handwritten signatures are truly a treasure, and add to the neatness of this entire project. I wonder what Great-Grandpa is thinking from above as we go through this... Once again, the date on the trim board is very close to today's date. Kind of neat how the dates we keep uncovering are so close to the dates that we find them. I also found an old metal cheese grater in the wall in the living room. Not sure how it got there, but maybe it got dropped down from upstairs? However, why would there have been a cheese grater in the upstairs bedroom? Connor stepped on a nail, so he went to my parents for the remainder of the day. Mom had his foot soaking in Epsom salt and water when I left to go back out to work. While we tore down, Phil was busy upstairs tearing out the plaster ceiling in the southwest bedroom. It was a very dirty job. Phil said he was covered in 114 years of dirt, and he certainly looked like it! The floor was completely covered with plaster, lathe, and lots of black dirt. Samantha and Phil cleaned up a good portion of the floor. When leaving for the night, we couldn't help but notice the pretty sunset. This is one thing that I am looking forward to; the view! After a hard day's work, it was a sweet reward... October 11, 2015 We started back to work on the house after lunch today. I had left a pile of lathe in the middle of the living room, with plaster on the outer edges. We began by cleaning up this floor, and taking off some final pieces along the bottom of the walls. Phil's sister Sara, her husband Travis, and their boys Carter and Caleb stopped by to check out our progress. Carter and Caleb were eager to do some tear down, so we let them and Connor knock out some plaster in the hallway near the bathroom. After we cleaned up the living room, we moved on to clean up in the upstairs southwest bedroom. What a mess! Black dirt everywhere! While working, Phil's aunt Brenda stopped by to take some photos of the board with Tom Friend's signature on it. He was a friend of her family's on her mother's side. Before leaving for the day, Chris (our builder/my cousin) stopped out to finalize our house plans. Sounds like he will be ready for us in March. Although we were originally thinking it would begin this Fall, the extra time will be nice to get what we need to get done finished up. No exciting discoveries today. Connor, Caleb, and Carter
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