who's tony?

dad spent quite a few hours this morning and afternoon (on his day off) to pick up that huge pile of garbage taking over the living room floor, and haul it off to the dump.

later on, me and mom painted the final coat of "home song" green on the walls, while dad uncovered a dark hidden space under the boards in my living room. in it was a wheel buried in dirt, and a paper tag labeled tony. i wonder who tony is? could he be one of the cat lady's cats?

demolition derby

the boys had a lot of work ahead of them. first, they finished up demo of the old closet between the living room and dining room.

then they got started on ripping out the living room coat closet and main hallway closet.

here's the plan with that: see the right edge of the closet where dad is? we're going to cut off that extra few feet and square it all off. then we'll remodel the hallway closet and one side of the bathroom (adding a closet, since there isn't one currently). this should really open up the space.

another view. this is the hallway closet that will be remodeled once we square-off the new wall.

meanwhile...i was all alone priming the bedroom walls with killz.

now back to where all the action is happening...the boys in the living room.

lookin good! right now we're deciding what to do about that last few feet of sheetrock on the brick wall. let's take it down and see what's underneath! bummer, nothing good. we'll have to re-cover it at some point...

might as well rip off the ceiling while we're at it! just kidding. but they really did tear it down, because then it will be easier to replace with sheetrock.

all done! phew, what a long day. tons of work, but totally worth it. and a totally giant pile of debris.

and the pile begins...

tonight we went over and worked on a few smaller projects for a couple hours. my job was to rip off the trim throughout the condo. then we worked on puttying the walls, which actually were in much better shape than we had anticipated! when we were done it looked like the walls were covered in bandaids - as if a careless man was shaving his beard and nicking himself over and over again.

this is the start of the garbage pile in the living room. it will only get bigger.

and this is the bedroom so far. nothing too special, but i have to admit, im excited for my closet! so much bigger than any closet i have ever had.