More changes at home

We have wanted to put a wood stove back in for the three years since we took it out. After selling the big stove that we had we looked on KSL.com and found one we liked in South Jordan. Luckily Kimber was in SLC and was able to get it for us and bring it home. That next Tuesday I started tearing out the old furnace so we would be able to have some room to work putting the stove pipe in. Dad got home that evening and tore out more of the furnace. That next Saturday we were able to hook up the stove and have enjoyed the warmth of a wood fire. Last Monday (the 12th which dad had off because of Columbus Day) Dad finished taking the furnace out while I was at work. It makes that storage room so much bigger and more usable. We actually put the big square tub in there and filled it with wood. We have a box under the little table the tub is sitting on filled with kindling. So-more room and a nice stove to keep us warm. What more could a girl ask for--Well-we won't go there.

And the walls finally came tumbling down

These pictures are some of the first ones I took of the work on the post office. The back wall where we started taking the siding off. The front so we can remember what it looked like at first. The side which was fun to uncover. It says "A real drink. King's Court. Made from real lemons." I googled King's Court and found that it was a lemon lime drink probably similar to Sprite back in 1946. The last picture is of the front after we took the last of the siding off.

The next pictures show some of the work we did. One night we had been working so long and I was so tired but then dad uncovered a doorway leading into the playroom. It is the green boards you can see next to the furnace. Then I got all energized and had to pull the boards off. The small picture shows the doorway after we pulled the boards off. The lower pictures show the walls in a kind of before and after. They show the one wall before we started and after some of the lath and plaster is off.

The first picture in this next collage is after Jake spend about an hour on a Friday evening tearing off the back and this much of the side before we got home from town. It went really fast. The next one is just a shot of the inside from the front and then another shot of the front of the building. The last one is of Josh and Dad taking the last of the lath off before we were ready to pull the building down.

The next ones are after we pulled the building over. The guys hooked a chain to the back corner and pulled but it just pulled the corner out and not the building over. Trachelle and I kept telling them they needed to pull the front corner because it was the one that was still solid but they had to try again to pull the back-just pulling another 2 x 4 off. They finally hooked to the front corner and pulled and it came down. They then hooked to the other front corner and pulled it down.

The fourth picture shows the elm trees growing on the roof of the post office. The 5th shows the side where the post office was attached and the last picture shows the new perspective of our house.

On Saturday we worked really hard again on a positively perfect sunny day and have about 2/3 of the roof torn off and cleaned out. We hauled another full truck load of wood to Don Marleys' pit and then hauled a truck load of good firewood home from his pit. Hopefully we will have another one or two good sat. when we can finish this project but if not it will just have to wait until next year.

Why didn't we do this when we had some big stong boys at home to help. It would have made this job so much easier.