Wednesday and Thursday my Mom and Uncle Forest came up to help me in the afternoon. Somehow I forgot to take my camera and when I remembered it the next day the battery went dead. Bum timing. Anyways, the cleaning up for the garage sale continued along with massive nail pulling, dry wall tear down, plaster cleanup, and sweeping. One room upstairs was pretty much cleaned up and the hallway and stairs (though my Uncle kept getting it dirty again with his dry wall tearing out).

This Friday Lee bought a shop vacuum. I have decided this is a girls best friend while living (soon) in a disaster zone. That night I vacuumed the upstairs room as shown in the picture above. It was so much fun watching everything get sucked up. I even vacuumed up a huge stinky mouse nest in the upstairs flooring that was uncovered. Dead mouse and all. I did have to pound a little on the nozzle to get the petrified mouse all the way in and up.

Lee started tearing off trim. He and I were very curious about what was under the main floor paneling. Basically he had just uncovered some of it before I wanted to leave.

This was his method of being careful in removing the big trim. We want to reuse the trim boards where we can in the house again. See we knew the awful siding we tore out would come in handy for something. Pry bar wood protection.

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