The third weekend

I am traveling with my family in the Pacific Northwest, but Rich kept up the fight. Here are his photos:

Chandler Mtn Week 3

Now might be a good time to revisit the before photos:

Chandler Mountain Road

We each have our own battles with wood

For our second weekend, we really rolled up our sleeves and got to work. Sharon painted from 8 am - midnight Saturday, then noon to early evening on Sunday. Rich replaced many light fixtures and started clearing the yard.

My paint frenzy was inpsired by the ladder left behind by the contractors. It was just tall enough to reach the highest areas of the ceiling!! I was driven to get all of that finished before the ladder disappeared. By about 11:30 at night, the combinations of paint fumes and exhaustion created some interesting effects. At one point, the large knot in the ceiling beam seemed to move, and perhaps to talk. Fortunately, I was close to acheiving my goal for the day.

Rich had his own wood issues. He improvised a tree removal system - the important parts were a hack saw and an extension cord. Let's just say it ended with a down tree, blood in the downstairs bath, and a big dent in our band-aid supply.

Unfortunately, I deleted some of the photos in a frenzy to free up space on my camera to take photos of my nephew dancing...but here is what is left:

52ChandlrMtnRoad - End of the Second Weekend

The first weekend

OK kids, here is the narrative to accompany the photos we've sent. It's a bit behind, but it's been a busy couple of weeks!

We closed on the house on Chandler Mountain Road on Friday May 30. On our first day, we celebrated with our realtor, Steve Anderson at Pinkham Real Estate and his family. As expected, their son immediately ran for the spiral stair case of doom to play. (no casualties, but our safety concerns were magnified!)

Our very first official rehab activity was to meet with our contractor, Tom, to finalize the work definition and estimate. New roof, new deck, clean out and re-insulate the crawl space, and completely gut and rehab the first floor bath. And that's just the start!

After our very expensive cup of coffee with Tom, we headed out for supplies. Our first priority is to cover up that blue trim and replace the light fixtures. We thought we'd take it easy on the first weekend and only do cheap, easy stuff. $450 later, we realized that nothing is going to be cheap or easy with this thing!

Here are the results of our first weekend's worth of work:

52 Chandler Mountain Road - After the first weekend

How did I get here?

I was a nice, happy lamp sitting in a nice, big house in Ohio. Then, these people came and ferried me away as if I was on the underground lamp railroad. I don't know the details, but it seemed an action driven more by spite resulting from a real estate transaction than actual logic and sense.

Whatever. Now I am sitting in a run down shack in the woods. No one seems to be very happy about it yet.