I got up late today, because I could. Most days I'm up at 5:30 AM during the week to get to work by 7:00 and 6:30 on the weekend, which allows me to get an extra hour in the sack. But, since we went to four day workweeks (it's the economy) I try to sleep in on Fridays.
I still have a lot of things to get done, so after a quick breakfast Jo and I loaded up in the Malibu and headed out. We went to our old house on Fairview to clean it out from the last phase of the remodel that was completed when the bathroom was torn out and redesigned to take better advantage of the space.
The old bathroom had a 28" doorway and the tub was old (1975?) and needed replacing. We tore out the entire bathroom and redesigned it to accommodate a wheelchair. We expanded the doorway to accept a 36" door and moved the new tub to the back of the room. Originally the tub was to the right as you entered the room and this made the bathroom seem narrow and crowded. We placed the toilet between the sink cabinet and the tub and increased the size of the cabinet. The utilities had to be moved to accommodate the changes and we shortened the length of pipe work that connected everything and located in a single "water wall" to keep it neat. This was a complete turn-about from what was in there originally.
Anyway, it left a lot of debris to dispose of and I have a small trailer so we planned on picking up the garbage and hauling it to the dump. I should have mentioned that we also replaced all of the windows with vinyl double paned windows and ripped out all of the flooring and doors. Plus we replaced all of the baseboard heaters with Cadet style heaters in each room. We cut off the bottom foot of the exterior T-111 and replaced it with new material after treating the exposed timbers with copper based insect repellent, and then wrapped the front of the house with house wrap and resided it with hardie siding.
We filled the trailer and Jo swept up the dust and other debris that had piled up in the house. This has been a long term project and we are just now beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Steve, our contractor, is supposed to start getting the texture done on the inside of the rest of the house from where we removed the popcorn ceiling material, and then we will paint the interior. But that is a later project.
We made it to the dump with an hour to spare, and then went home with the trailer attached. We stopped by the pizza place and ordered a couple of their best for dinner and while we waited we visited the the video store next door and picked up a copy of "Secretariat" to watch later over at Mom's house. It's going to be an at home date night this week.
The movie was great, a super feel-good story that shows that if you stick to your guns, good things can happen.
Still got to bed early enough to get a good nights sleep. Lots to do in the morning as Sab, James, and Craig are coming over to help us do the planter areas around our two houses with new bark dust and some cinders. Whew...
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