August 25, 2008 – 10:31 am
Brian and I decided to get a later start on Dad’s house and slept in. That was a good break.
Stacy, Brian, and I just worked on the inside all day on Saturday. The first thing we decided to do was go through all the stuff we’ve been collecting on the porch of the pool room. We’re currently keeping all the tools we find there. We threw away a lot of stuff and put more stuff in the big pile for the flea market.
Brian and I also decided to finally go through Dad’s laundry room. That little room has been untouched since Dad passed away, basically. We threw away a lot of stuff and cleaned it out.
Brian went through the pool room better separating the Coke stuff of which we want to keep for now from the rest of the flea market stuff.
I went through many boxes downstairs and tried to figure out cords.
Sunday we got a lot done since Uncle George was there with us. We had the plan to get all the cars down from the lifts.
We cleaned under Dad’s old truck first. We had previously cleaned under there in the Weekend Of 7/27/08 Update post. We had to get everything out this time to lower down the truck. We also had to move the Barracuda. We moved it to where the extra truck bed was. We decided to move that outside. After the big clean and moving the stuff we lowered down the truck. It was tricky since the truck wasn’t all the way up on the lift. After that, we decided to get the Sting Ray down. We had to move the blue Camero first since that was underneath the two lifts.
After that was done we lowered the Sting Ray down. The Sting Ray is the car of which a raccoon got into and tore up the interior. We swept around there and decided to ditch three engines we found for scrap. We lowered down the red Camero next. That was a chore since a lot of signs and stuff were underneath and had to be moved.
Now the garage is much cleaner. All the cars are off the lifts, never to be lifted up again. It’s a good thing because the lifts were not mounted in, so they could become unsterdy.
Uncle George is going to have Dad’s old truck so that will be out of here soon. The ram will be parked across the blue Camero’s way (on the lift of where the truck was) and in the way of the Barracuda.
Lowering the cars down:
Date Started: Aug 24, 2008
Estimated Time: 1 day
Actual Time: 5 hours
Players Involved: Brian, Stacy, me, Uncle George
Status Of This Project: Completed (cars are down, truck bed and truck are out)
Brian had to run to his parents to pick up our cooler for Uncle George. Uncle George went to his house to get his car trailer to try to get Dad’s truck. I decided to stay and get stuff done around the house. We had several more boxes to go through of paperwork. I did that and went through a bunch of other stuff.
Progress on Dumpster III:
Date Started: August 16, 2008
Estimated Time: 4 days
Actual Time: 2 weeks
Players Involved: Uncle George, me, Brian, Stacy, Nick
Status Of This Project: Completed (Brian just needs to call them to pick it up)
Uncle George is also working on cleaning out the shed:
Date Started: Aug 9, 2008
Estimated Time: 2 days
Actual Time: TBD
Players Involved: Brian, Uncle George, Curtis
Status Of This Project: In Progress (Uncle George is working to clean it out, the damage isn’t that bad so we will take it to the rental property for them to use)
Also, the junk yard is almost done. We only have four more cars left to get out!
Stuff we completed this weekend:
- cleaned laundry room completely, no more laundry will be done
- went through most of down stairs
- went through all of deck of pool room
- moved stuff around in the house
- went through some records
- moved all the cars down from off the lifts
- Uncle George will be taking Dad’s old truck
- cleaned a significant portion of the garage, ditched some engines
Next weekend it will be Stacy, Brian, Curtis, and I working around the house. My goals are:
- get the T V off the stand in train room (Bri and I couldn’t do this by ourselves over this weekend)
- put the tanning bed on Craigslist
- spackle the rooms
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