Too late and too tired to write much tonight so I'll let the pictures do the talking...

Sarah's brother Tommy came over a few weekends ago to help take out the floor in the living room (and by help I mean do most of the work).  We'd noticed the floor had a good bounce to it the first time we saw the house and always wanted to find out why.

Mystery picture of the day...Sarah pulled this out from under the floor.....guesses???  So you think it's an old towel.  Hmm maybe even an animal?  An opossum?  Wrong, it's TWO opossums... mummified together.  Needless to say Sarah was grossed out.

Our contractor put in one of the doors reclaimed from another house renovation.  These things are 8 feet tall and weigh a ton.  The other one should go in sometime next week.

And a view of the door from the interior.  You can see how much light it brings into what was a dark hallway. Sarah worked on tearing out the old carpet and pulling up the "tackless" strips, which ironically have more tacks than anything on the planet.  There's quite a bit of patching that needs to be done to the floor...luckily there's a place in town with a huge amount of old heart pine flooring.

Here's the living room floor after the repairs.  We added blocking and a good dose of liquid nails down the middle which greatly reduced the bounce so everything's nice and rigid.  I also got to do my first plumbing repair to a drain pipe and so far so good.

And I'll end with this shot of our work gloves.  Believe it or not they're the exact same type of glove, but the ones at the top were bought in August of 2010 and have been used every weekend since then.  Beaten up, worn through and missing some finger tips, but hey they're comfortable.

Time to break in some new ones for the next year...