First we ground all the nail heads left over from the floor tack off. Greg started blocking out Chad’s closet and sealed the hole in the wall left from removing the swamp cooler duct. We finally started patching all the small holes from the old phone lines, speakers, and other random things that we are not going to be needing.

We put the old toilet, swamp cooler, stove, and stacks of particle board out for trash tomorrow. Not 10 minutes after we came back inside did someone stop and picked up the stove and swamp cooler. Wish we had know someone was going to take it so fast, we could have put other things out for trash. we can only put out 4 large items a week, oh well.

Greg met the mail lady, and she seemed exciting that we were moving in.

At the end of the day, we got a bid for someone to skim-coat the ceilings. They are going to start some time this week.

Yesterday was spent on the living room ceiling, tearing down the drop ceiling in the kitchen, putting shelves together and more weeding.

Seems like we have spent as much time at Home Depot and Lowe’s as we have at the house. Lots of garbage bags, new door locks, looking at light fixtures and the never ending price comparisons.

An electrician stopped by to cap off a few wires, talk about moving somethings around, and take a look at wiring the garage for Greg’s studio. Basically two small jobs, one now and the other a little later on.

Tomorrow a guy is stopping by to bid out plastering the ceiling now that the popcorn is gone.

After getting rid of the linoleum in the bathroom and some discussion we decided that a new toilet, new sink, white tile and lots of white paint would do wonders for the bathroom.

Greg finished scraping the bedroom ceiling and the small hall. The linen closet seemed to be in place slightly crooked, so Greg removed the trim. This allowed him to just pull out the closet because it wasn’t even nailed down.

I spent the morning in the attic pulling down the duct work for the swamp cooler. Ones closet can never be to big.

We scraped one bedroom ceiling and started the other. Surprised by how easily the popcorn came off. Hope to have living room done by Monday. Next will be sanding the concrete floors.

Since the swamp cooler had failed we decided to take it out, which gives Chad a larger closet.

We will post pictures tomorrow.

Spent the morning removing linoleum from the kitchen and the bathroom. Still a lot of crap left on the floor from the linoleum separating. It can wait for another day.

Going to spent Thanksgiving at John and Dan’s. We are thankful for everyone in our lives.

Today we had our first trash pick up. Which wasn’t our trash, but left overs from the previous owners.

We also got all the old floor tack up. Tomorrow will be scraping old linoleum from the kitchen and bathroom.

Someone coated the windows and they have to be scraped clean.

Just the beginning.

Well we are going into escrow. Hopefully we will close on 11/29. Fingers crossed!