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Good news! I got an estimate for my gutters that I’m REALLY happy with! Yay! For all new 6″ aluminum gutters, 4 new downspouts, vinyl soffits and facia: $2279. That’s a VERY good estimate! I’ll be hiring them for the gutters. And it turns out they know my family cuz they helped fix my parent’s home when the trees destroyed it. Small world :)

Take a look at how many trees those bulldozers have cleared away now…

 

You can see houses now on the other side of the clearing! I wonder how many condos are going up?

 

 

I pulled up some more sheets of subfloor today. I’m making progress :)

 

 

 

I was able to remove the top layer of subfloors in my living room and dining area today! Yay! But I have a new problem. Last summer when I removed the old vinyl from the kitchen floor, it left a paper backing on the subfloor. This is covering the nails in the kitchen, so I can’t see the nails to pull them up and it’s really hard to get that paper removed cuz it’s glued to the floor. Not sure what I’m gonna do about this yet. Maybe a stud finder will help find the nails?

I took a video clip of the livingroom and dining area I worked on today. I’m happy I got so much done :)

I also mowed today. I’m so sore from pulling up hundreds and hundreds of nails and then mowing all the grass. Just lifting my arms to type on this keyboard hurts :( But look! I have baby rosebuds yay!

 

And look! Little baby daisies too! Aww :) I love daisies.

 

 

I had a very productive weekend. Today I got one whole bedroom done! :)

 

Before…

After …

Yay! I think I will bake myself a cake ;)

But I did have a small accident. While removing a sheet of subfloor in the room, the air duct fell through the floor and landed in the crawlspace.

Oops. Now I have to go down into the crawlspace and push it back up through the floor. Or, maybe I could reach down through the floor and grab it back up. Ughhh! I really don’t want to do this. I guess first I’ll try and reach down through the hole and grab it, but what’s down there? May be a rabid raccoon family, ready to bite me. Or snakes. Or a skunk. Or monster spiders like this one that I found in my bathroom a few weeks ago!

 

Ick. I’m getting scared. I don’t even want to think about it until I absolutely have to. That air duct will just have to sit in that crawlspace until I’m good and ready to get it! Maybe I can try a fishing pole? Despite my air duct dilemma, I had a good weekend :) The subfloors in the livingroom and dining area, hallway and one full bedroom are done! I just took a bath and I’m in my Strawberry Shortcake PJ’s and I think I actually will bake myself a cake :)