Project 2: 97% Complete
It's so close, we can almost taste it. well, it's that or the nasty urine s
mell we're tasting still. anyway, the cleanup portion of the garage removal is almost done. Saturday morning, Chrissy's brother Michael and his fiancee Kim came down. We did some mowing and raking of leaves and then began loading up the wood. I had borrowed Jon and Carrie's truck to make it possible. We got the first load ready and i drove it over to the Waldens, while the rest of the gang finished yard work and got some lunch. I brought Jon back with a chainsaw to cut down some of the longer pieces. Two trips later, we had about 90% of the wood over there. Jon and I started the fire on our first trip and Carrie had kept feeding it throughout the afternoon. We let it die
down and cooked a couple brats for dinner ... mighty tasty brats. We decided that maybe tearing down the garage, hauling the wood, etc. was quite a bit of work for a few BTUs of heat to cook some brats, but they were good. Oh well. After eating, we started the blaze going again, but had to let it die down because of some strong winds. We'll have to head over some other time to finish the burning. It was a fun time ... we hadn't really hung out with Jon and Carrie outside of work, so it was a nice change of pace. We even took a minute to do an American Gothic pose in front of our fire (i think we somewhat captured the half-ticked off, half confused look of the painting).
Sunday after Michael and Kim left, we headed back over to load up the shingle mess. We stopped and bought a scoop shovel on the way over -- nice purchase, saved us quite a bit of time. We loaded all the shingles up and a few other bits of trash in about an hour. We were hoping to get the rest of the wood on also, but the truck was just too full for anything else. I plan on running this load to Waste Management in the morning and we'll load up the rest tomorrow evening for a Tuesday morning dropoff. Oh, and the leaves we raked yesterday ... waste of time. We had some intense storms overnight which made the yard look worse than when we started. We met a former neighbor of ours who was looking around her old house (currently vacant). She grew up in a house across the back yard (in the late 40s and 50s). She shared a coupe memories of our former homeowners from when she was a kid (before the area went downhill with all the rental homes). She was really disappointed with how the area had been run down but was happy that people who were going to restore the homes were now moving in.
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 9:53 PM
4 Comments:
I just can't imagine why you would want to get rid of the pee pee smell! I buy urine-scented candles, Glade plug-ins, and room spray. (p.s. I've even been able to find a few retailers who supply "human morning urine" scented items -- bonus!) Kind of like curly hair . . . . some people spend money to get rid of it and others spend money to get it! Ciao!
Good pose!
mam
Hey! Post some pictures of the floor! I'm very curious.
Casey
we will ... when we take them, which will be very soon.
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