... Continued from yesterday: If I ever hear a real-estate agent say, "You just need to pull up the carpeting" I do believe I will run many miles in the opposite direction. Just kidding. Maybe. I expect the root of my problem with pulling up the carpeting in my in-laws' house was two-fold: 1. In my 64 years on the planet I'd never pulled up carpeting before, and 2. On my first try at it I had to pull up carpeting that was almost as old as I was, though the problem wasn't so much with the carpet, From decades of being trod upon I suppose, the padding was stuck to the floor and so had to be scraped up, but carefully so as not to damage the wood. Our shoes and clothes were were coated with red dust,
Still, we managed to get all the downstairs carpeting, living room and dining room, pulled up in about 4 1/2 hours. (All right, I say "we" loosely, as , since the house had no WIFI, I took off after about 2 1/2 hours - my bad - and headed for the local Panera to get my 2/4/2016 blog finished and sent out). By then were way ready to eat again and, as Tom's brother Andy was on his way in from Rochester, New York and would be arriving in Richmond Heights in minutes, we arranged to meet him for dinner. We met up with Andy in the nearby town of Highland Heights at Crostatas Pizzeria, a popular family-owned Italian restaurant, ...where the food was phenomenal. After dinner the guys returned to the house for a few finishing touches, a final sweep and staple-check, while I went out to the grocery store for some snacks and breakfast provisions.
By the time I returned to the house it was late and our long day - which began for Tom, Tommy and me with our 3-hour trip from Columbus to visit Tom's Dad, followed by a 1-hour trip on to Richmond Heights, then hours of carpet-pulling - was done. It had been a separate-but-equally long day for Andy, who'd driven 5 hours from Rochester and would start digging into the house work tomorrow. There'd be plenty more where this day's came from.
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Claire
2/8/2016 12:21:49 pm
Wow, that's a lot of work! Good job guys!!
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Patti
2/8/2016 04:14:06 pm
Thanks, Clairey! Hope you and Miguel are still having a wonderful time. Tomorrow is the big day, right? Mardi Gras?
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Claire
2/9/2016 11:32:04 am
We were tired from having such a grand time at Carnaval so we decided to cut out early and moved on to Mompos, Colombia. It's much quieter and time for some relaxing.
Molina
2/8/2016 01:42:31 pm
Great job; admire your stamina!
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Patti
2/8/2016 04:14:47 pm
Oh, thanks, Molina!
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