Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Raise Your Head and Wear Your Wounds With Pride

This is what the floor looked like when we started - all full of carpet backing and whatever they used to stick the carpet on with.

So, before the holiday starts, I thought I'd finally do a post from last weekend....Which I obviously didn't finish or really start much at all.

Here it is all sanded. It was a bitch to scrape all that black stuff off without ruining the floor.

Sooo, now that Thanksgiving is over, I'll finally post last weekend's entry. As you can see, we finally finished the floor in Coadster's old room with a lot of help from our friends' Jo Ann and Stacy. They were so wonderful to come over and use up at least 4 hours of their Saturday.

Here is the finished product. So lovely and that made it worth the work.

I wasn't able to go to my friend T-Rip's wedding, since this took way longer than I thought (like everything does).

On Sunday I raked leaves for an elderly woman. Lots and lots of leaves.

When I finally finished that, it was time to play. We went to the mountain bike trails and rode all around Lake MacBride. Beautiful.

Very beautiful.

4 comments:

laura b. said...

You work hard and you play hard...and your life is beautiful.

NoRegrets said...

Wow, what a wonderful floor! You have courage, and stamina, for sure. Hopefully you didn't breathe the crap you pulled up.
And what a nice lake - looked like Maine for amoment.

MrManuel said...

I love putting in new floors. Something that is a lot of work and yet, so worth the effort.

Mnmom said...

Wow - that is a stunning floor! Congratulations. I can't imagine having the energy to scrape all that stuff off.