OMG! Demolition actually begins!!!! Yay!

Well, I never thought we'd ever get to it at the rate we were going, but it has actually begun! Today (Sunday), after Dean set the hottub back up (in the yard) he thought he'd start plugging away at the house. So I emptied out the small room in the far back part of the house. It was holding stacks of molding and cedar shelving boards. This room was actually (so we were told) a bathroom at one time. Not your typical bathroom, but an outhouse! There was a bench with holes in it! On the right of the below picture, the past residents of this house had written in names and dates of certain events, like births, weddings, deaths and even wars! I'll have to double check how far back the dates go, but it's at least as far back as the early 1900's, possibly earlier! (My mom wants to save this wall for its historical value, so we'll be cutting the section of wall where the writing is and giving it to her.) Anyway, below is the "before" shot.



Dean then got out his Sawz-All(sp?) and sawed all around the room and up over the roof. Here is the back of the house with the room sawn, but still in place.

Next, Dean hopped on the tractor and started pushing and pulling.

After getting one side to budge, he drove around to the other side and started to really heave-ho!

And it's going, going...gone!

Here's the back of the house now without that small room! Monday, he's taking off work to take off the next room, which you can see the doorway to in the picture below. That one is a larger, but still relatively small, uninsulated storage space that was used mostly by the mice! I think he's planning on pulling down the roof to the porch as well. We'll see what happens. I'll be sure to post pics as I get them!