winding down

Last week, in amongst the exhausting work, Keith took time off to take the neighbor to Rapid to load up a few things that had been given to us by a long-time friend. They came back with a pickup load of scrap iron that she'd convinced them to take. That load was transferred to the neighbor's bigger truck and another trip was made to load more steel and 'stuff'.... Lost 2 remodeling days that week, since I'm not allowed (nor is it even POSSIBLE!) for me to navigate this construction zone and get anything useful done that requires such things as "two-handed reaching", "ladder climbing", etc. :(

But, as soon as it quits drizzling/raining, Keith will crawl back under the house and finish hooking up the fixtures and we'll have a completed bathroom! Meanwhile, we managed to get the chimney that someone in years past had built a hallway around, torn down and the much larger hallway is being finished.

Yeah, I know. construction details are boring!

Friday we're packing up the camper and heading for the hills on an over-nighter in the aforementioned friend's driveway! A mini-vacation! Then back here to unload/load the trailer for the trip back to the heat and steam of IL--and hopefully a paying job, since we've spent all we had at Menard's and the local Hardware Hanks!

Today is one of those days where we look at each other and wonder if we'll live long enough to finish this place and actually get to USE it!