Nailed It!
It's been a whirlwind couple of months, and this January, we bought a house! Never could I have imagined my nights and weekends (and dreams) would be filled with this image, but I've actually become quite comfortable hanging out in a layer of dirt, rust, and power tools. I have become inseparable from the drill that magically pulls out those stubborn screws and can't imagine how anyone ever managed a project like this with a screwdriver alone! This handful represents one of the last batches of nails I'll pull out of that crusty old linoleum and I'm just hoping the hardwood under it all is worth it! There's something very satisfying about the routine work involved in building (or, rather, demolition) projects like this. Being completely new to this flavor of manual labor, I can tell you the reward seems to even be worth the pain. And while a seasoned professional might have had the whole thing up in a fraction of the time - at least I can say, over an asprin and a heat pack, "I did that."