On Saturday, Scott took out and replaced the bottom row of the big upstairs windows. He had a narrow ledge to work on, and after he carried the windows to the second floor from the inside, he had move them to the outside through the openings and lift them into place before nailing them. It was nerve-wracking to me, but he said he wasn't nervous at all.

On Sunday, he put the top curved window in. This one he lifted on the outside of the building, but he said it was lighter. It was higher up, so I was praying the whole time he wouldn't fall. But they're in, and he's still with us.

To help him manage the windows from the outside, he build this ledge. So at least he was standing on something level, even if it was only 10 inches wide.

When I wasn't helping to stabilize a window, I was tearing out drywall in the living room and office, burning any wood trash I could, and cleaning up. ​

We made a LOT of progress on Labor Day!

We worked from around 9:30 to 7 with one short break for lunch. Here's a summary of our accomplishments

• Cleaned out every room, removing all furniture, shelving, knick-knacks, mirrors, pictures, pillows, bedding, rugs, curtains, rods, etc. from the house except for the stove (the lot will easily fill one dumpster and then there was plenty more volume that we burnt)
• Gutted the kitchen
• Gutted the bathroom
• Removed the bedroom doors
• Removed the fireplace insert
• Opened the wall into the sunroom, removing the barn door and the wall extension that had been built there
• Opened the wall between the kitchen and living room
• Demolished a hutch 
• Demolished an outdoor structure (we discovered from some writing on construction materials that the building was called the pump house at one time) 
• Burned a bunch of stuff

Every item made out of wood, from kitchen and bathroom cabinets to the outdoor hutch, was very strongly built and difficult to bust up and heavy to carry. Also screws. So many screws in everything.

Bathroom Gutting
Still more to do in here, from removing shower, tiling, wainscoting, and trim.

Before-ish and after Bedroom #1
So...no before pictures in the first bedroom? I am not a very good photojournalist. I do have three of the living room from which you can see a little into the first bedroom. That's the best I've got.

Before and After
More to be done in here including removing fireplace housing, removing trim and wainscoting, removing and replacing floors, windows, and doors.

All my post cleanout pictures.
​Again, terrible photography skills on display. So much furniture up here that had to be taken down and out.

All my living room pictures.

I have no closeup picture of the hutch pre- or postdemo. But in the picture of the house, you can see the shed to the right of the house and the hutch between the house and the shed, against the back wall of the house.

Mattresses cost $60 a piece to take to the dump!!! So we're carting them back to our house.