Work Weekend, goodbye August

Well, another weekend has come and gone, and we got a LOT done! Mom and Doug came to town to help up out, and they are such work machines!! They really inspired us to keep pushing ourselves, and between the four of us, we finished up some big projects that needed to be done.
I'm especially thrilled that the guys got those joists reinforced! That makes it possible for all sorts of other things to be done.

Look at all that glorious new wood!

Ben and Doug are getting ready to put in a 4"x12" beam above the pocket door in the entry--notice the false wall to stabilize it while they removed some studs.

It took four guys to get it in there, but there it is! Thanks to Ben, Doug, Kurt and and Kendon! Well done guys, thank you for your support~ :)

Meanwhile, Mom and I were hard at work upstairs, where we finished the demo of the hall, the closet of the master bedroom (which will be the future stand-up shower in our bathroom to be)

We also demolished of the entryway lath and plaster.

Go Mom!

This weekend, we were also able to do some fun little projects, like Ben's mission to get the hardware on the pocket door working--he took off the door plate, and found--oddly enough, and old stamp from Norway underneath it! I wonder how long that was there, and why!

After that, we got a good bit of work done cleaning out the basement. Since the furnace and the oil tank have been removed, it was kind of a mess down there. We shoveled out some of the old, oily dirt, took out some of the funky old cabinets, and swept up.

Ben also found some funny old things in the piles.

The cleanup went pretty well, though.

I know, it's still an old basement, but it's much improved. And here's our shrine to the old funace:

R.I.P., buddy.

In other news, we got a few things for the house in various places. The tub was found on Craigslist. It needs to be scraped and painted on the outside, but the inside's in great shape, and the type of tub is really unique--it's a clawfoot, but has a skirt rather than claws...behold:

We also scored an old door this weekend from the Rebuilding Center. We're planning on taking out the panes of glass and inserting mirrors in place, and using it as a closet door for the entry way.

We also bought a new toilet. That was interesting, I had never been toilet shopping before today. I didn't take a picture of it--as it's still in the box, and you can all use your imagination as to how it looks, basically. So, score!

Well, that's it for this installment. My fingers are complaining of my typing--this girl is exhausted! Till next time!