Burris is here for the month. He arrived in town last week and has been
minding the fort. It has been a great help to have someone at the house
to coordinate subcontractors, especially the mason who seems to have
created his own space-time operational construct. I feel kind of bad
that I have not had a chance to go out and have a vacation with Burris,
but I tell myself it will happen in the next week or so, when things on
the house settle down.
Ben, Ellen and Ilana's dad were up here this weekend and were a great help. Scott removed the divider between the living and dining rooms which really opens up the space. He also demolished the bathroom downstairs, removing hundreds of pounds of linoleum from the walls and ceilings. We discovered that there was a doorway behind all that junk where we had planned to put a door for backyard access. That was a cool bonus. Ben prepped and primed the doors and trim downstairs. It is so nice to have that horrible aqua trim back to a neutral white. It makes the whole downstairs look much more like a home. Burris worked on the wet walls in the bathroom and some more electric while I started patching the plaster over the chimney and in the holes in the ceiling. We got a tub this weekend and with any luck it will go in today or tomorrow. Now we begin the push to get the upstairs bathroom done.
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