Dad worked Sunday through Tuesday, then slept most of Wednesday because he has been fighting a cold, so we didn’t spend a lot of time at the property until yesterday and today. Even those two days, we’ve only been there from about 9:30 or 10:00 until 1:15 or so. We bring our lunch, so we take a break for that.

We finally finished removing the last of the shelving on the right side today. We removed the shelving in the “clean room” by the shower the other day and used the lumber to make the rest of the raised beds for the garden. We even had enough to make a 14 foot long box to put in front of the house for the marigolds. So that room is totally emptied and swept out. It just needs to be scrubbed and we can paint it and then move stuff into it whenever we want. It has a door on it, so will be the place we put stuff we don’t want to get terribly dusty during the summer. And come colder weather, it might also be the place we sleep. We’ll see how things are going by then. I hope to have the new master bedroom done, but you never can tell. At least we have a backup plan if we don’t get that far by cold weather.

The shelving on the right side took a long time because we either had to pull nails or cut off the nails with the Sawzall, which is what we did today. Then we moved all the pieces either to a pile to use for future shelving on the left side or, in the case of the smaller pieces, to the burning pile, which is getting really big!

We also worked a little on the shed, removing some flooring and seeing if the plywood from a couple of the shelves would work as a replacement floor, which it does. We still have to nail that down, because getting it fit in the space turned out to be a little tricky. We also got the door on the shed yesterday, so we can now close that up, although it still isn’t watertight because of some metal missing alongside the door and several holes in the walls.