Well, this weekend was spent wheeling and dealing at our yard sale on Saturday morning and then constructing away the rest of the time. The yard sale was quite a success -- and I thought it was all going to go pear-shaped because I had missed the deadline for submitting an ad to the paper. Not so! I posted on a bunch of online classified sites and made a few signs and put them up on Thursday. Well, that did the trick. We started at 7am (people came at 6:30) and went until 1pm. I think the next time I would only have it go to 12pm, the last hour was a bit painful and slow. (Plus so much of our stuff had been purged, it looked quite sad on our lawn.) We packed everything else up and donated it to the Langley Hospice and took what they didn't want to the Salvation Army. (Oh! And we made $300!!!)And it's official! We've started to put studs in the basement! Very exciting. And I am proud to say that I am actually HELPING. YES. Using power tools. I had a lesson on how to use a compound cut off saw yesterday and I've been compounding and cutting off ever since. In fact, I am the one cutting the studs (yes, imagine that!). The next lesson is going to be with a big framing nailer. We'll see how that goes, it's gigantic.
But we're on schedule pretty much with the timeline that we've set out for the basement. With some luck, the framing will be done next week, we'll have the drywall guy come by and measure and give us a quote and then it will be on to plumbing and electrical.
(And we bought our flooring this weekend as well! Homo Delepot was having a sale and we squeaked over their $1999 cut-off and got a $250 gift card. That will be handy for buying doors and the rest of the bathroom goodies.)
