Jackpot!

We are very close to being done with the first part of the remodeling. The ceiling is up in the bedroom and the parlor. The good Mr. Dr. and I, with the help of some friends, will paint the bedroom over the next couple of weekends. We've decided to be bold with the bedroom. We're going with dark blue walls and a tannish/yellow ceiling. For the moment we're keeping the white trim until we make the time to strip it and go back to the natural wood finish. With any luck, we'll be able to move back into our bedroom by the end of February.

But, the big story is the floors in the parlor. We originally thought that the plyboard in the parlor was the subfloor. But our contractor discovered that there was a floor underneath that. So, we asked him to pull up a piece. Lo and behold, there was the original wide plank floor.


Our contractor thinks that it is either fir or yellow pine. Soft woods, which means lots of polyurethane will be needed to protect it. But, the good news is:

1. We can keep the original floors, and
   
2. We don't have to buy new floors.
   

This meets our twin objectives to save as much of the original house as possible and do it within budget. Even better, we'll have some money have the contractor finish the parlor so that we don't have to. Woo-hoo!

So the next step is to have the doors and the moulding stripped and stained, and then finally to paint the room. The contractor will begin on that next week.

In the mean time, the city is having their guy come to check out the roof on Wednesday and hopefully we can get started on that sooner rather than later.

In other news, we continue to work on our books. Simba seems to be doing fine even though she hasn't had any medicine for over a week. We're hoping that she's spontaneously healed herself of her hyperthyroidism.

That's all from this side. We hope you all had a good week.