The Daring Young Man...

He flies through the air, with the greatest of ease....
Don is patching the plaster in our stairwell. These photos say it all.

The wall with the big area that lacks plaster had a big bulge in it. When Don is all finished it will be smooth.

Plaster dust - yeeeccch!

Once again Don is going through the mud, then sand, mud then sand process to fix the cracks in the lath and plaster walls and ceiling. It is about 17 feet from the main floor floor to the ceiling in the stairwell. Sami suggested that we might want to have a professional do the job, but of course Don wanted the challenge.

A Long-Legged Cat

The area around the cat door was always dirty from our kitties dirty paws. We hope to hide some of the soil with this decoration. Now, the only thing left in the kitchen entryway is to prep and paint the walls.

Detals

Don finished the kitchen entryway floor and now Sami is applying a second coat of paint to the trim  and prepping the walls for paint there.

Don has been working on a detail for the kitchen. It is a blackboard....

Sami designed it to use a brass heron as an apron hook. The heron is cousin to the owls used in the under-the-stairs closet, which we have dubbed the Harry Potter memorial closet. What's the point of doing all this work if we can't have a little fun along the way?

November

The year is coming to an end, but our project is not. However, we are determined to finish in 2017! 

Don is on his hands and knees scraping the old adhesive from the stair risers in our kitchen entryway and preparing to lay the floor there. It is back-breaking, detailed work.

Sami has her hands full with a bunch of other projects including coordinating the Oregon Battle of the Books program at grandson Olive's school, which included fundraising for books and supplies.

She is also knee-deep in plumbing issues at the other house we care for, Spindrift Cottage. 

 
But today she is determined to post a photo of some actual work she will do on THIS REMODEL!! Stay tuned.