busted up

Phew. This week was really something. We weren't able to make a ton of progress at Hobbs, but by Saturday evening I was just thankful everyone in my household got in bed safely to start a new day.

On Thursday, Thomas and I both got a stomach bug and Micah babe started yet another cold. Who was supposed to take care of everybody? By Friday all was a little better and we started getting ready for a big work weekend and a family party at our house to celebrate several birthdays. Well, Saturday rolled around and did some serious work on us! 

I spent most of the morning changing Micah babe's diapers and outfits for reasons I don't care to describe. Walker came to help and left sick with the bug. I went out to get lunch and caught my heel on the door and got a big bruise. Thomas injured his right hand removing flooring. More family members got sick and we postponed the party until Sunday. And then I busted my face on a bedpost while trying to watch the babe and throw something away. When I finally stopped crying, we had to laugh. We went out for "Mexican on the Corner" (our fave) and to get Steri-strips for my eye. Thomas said we looked like we got in a fight because his hand was bandaged and my eye was cut and bruised.

I'm thankful that nothing worse happened. And was again reminded about the frailty of our bodies and of this life. My flesh may fail, but God is the strength of my heart. (Psalms 73:26). What a blessing to see a new morning with the ones I love.

In between the incidents, we did learn a little more about Hobbs this week. He really really cared about fastening things securely.

Thomas and Walker began by pulling up the wood floor in the front sun room. We have to turn this room back into a front porch to make it more historically accurate. It's a nice sun room and adds extra space, but there is quite a bit of water damage behind the panelling that would need to be fixed anyway. We will use the same floor system, but add a weather resistant surface. The flooring was very tiny pieces (1x4''), fastened with tons of glue. They had to pry each one up individually.

The wood panelling and all of the baseboards were also all fastened with extreme measures. There were nails about every two inches in the walls.

Thomas calls this the "Hobbs Stud Finder". When he pulled the panelling off of the walls, we found all kinds of holes in the sheetrock. Thomas said it looks like what happens when you miss a nail with a hammer and it goes straight through the sheetrock. He thinks Hobbs was looking for studs in the walls and kept hammering until he found them.

I did manage to find about 30 more minutes for brick-chipping. Looks like my contribution to the project will be a brick walkway. And lots of lunches and babe-loving.