Gettin it done

Today, we were so lucky and blessed to have two of Richard's brothers working with us. Chase and Rhett spent all day ripping up vinyl flooring in the kitchen. I could not believe what we found--5 layers of vinyl flooring! It was like digging our way back in time, all the way to 1960. There was literally a style of flooring for every decade. Hilarious! The house had only had 3 owners, so I guess each of them decided it was not worth the work to pull up what was already there.

Anyway, this project was so HUGE for us. Richard said multiple times that now he can see light at the end of the tunnel. Today helped us to see that with alot of hard work, we can really turn this house around. We've still got some flooring to pull up, but we are much farther along now. We made so much progress today thanks to Rhett and Chase!


I started on the lawn care-and after I finished the backyard and came around to start the front, I looked up and saw those two HUGE, beautiful trees in our front yard. And I also saw that they were now completely bare.

Richard and I don't own a rake or a leaf blower.

Across the street, there was a gentleman, Mark, who was working on his lawn most of the afternoon, so I walked over and introduced myself to him. I asked if he had an extra rake that I might be able to borrow for an hour or two. I told him that I'd bring it right back over tonight as soon as I finished with it. Mark went to his shed and pulled out two rakes, and said "you can just bring them back tomorrow when you're finished." I'm laughing now because he had a perfect view of our yard and those HUGE trees-allowing him better perspective on the project at hand. We ended up using both rakes... and yes, I will still be raking tomorrow.