Sunday, August 8, 2010

Meryl & Chris' Last Few Days

We've been bad runners the last few days, however, we have been working out - just in house related ways.

I've been swinging the pick axe in the backyard for an hour or two during the week, trying to break up really hard dirt in the backyard and move it around to even things out.

Yesterday we went to dad and Wendy's new house to rip out a fireplace. We were going to run this morning, but we are very tired and Chris' friends (John and Emily with baby Jane) are coming over sometime later in the morning. As a result we'll run Monday, Wednesday and Thursday (normally we run on 2 week days).

Here was our foe yesterday






and all the bricks we saved (173)

We had a pretty good system down of Chris breaking it all up and me hauling the debris to the truck and the salvaged bricks to the backyard. After hours working on that and then taking the garbage load to the dump, our backs are SORE (well, I think mine more than Chris, DAMN HIM!)

It'll be a mud and tape day in the bathroom today.

2 comments:

CBH said...

What was wrong with the fireplace?

meryl rose said...

there's another fireplace in the living room. This is the family room and there is no wall for the TV to go on and they don't really have too many times when they want to use a fireplace, so they figured one was enough and this is where they'd put the tv.