January - All projects on target - well almost!

(Painting is all done and we are ready for carpet.)

This has been a busy month. The goals for this month were to get Christmas put away and to get the 3rd apartment updated before our shipment arrived. The third apartment has never been completely tackled before so now that it's tenants had moved out and we were re-arranging a lot of the house anyway, it was the perfect time to tackle that project. It involved -

*Removing all remaining detritus

*Repairing and patching walls (we had a painter come in and bid the job at $1,000. It was a BIG job.)

*Painting - Thanks to Darlene and Alyna , we were able to get it all done in 1 week

*Ripping out old carpet, removing all tacks and staples from the floor and screwing down the squeaky and/or loose boards - Thanks to Andrew, Alyna and Dennis for all their hard work

*Getting new carpet installed

*Moving furniture in and setting up the new sewing room - Again thanks to Andrew and Lindsay, also Lisa

*Replacing old light fixtures - not a simple job since it involved crawling up in the attic and replacing old wiring and in one case, putting a cross beam in to hand the light box on. -Big Thanks to Dennis who spent a day and a half on this project when he had many other things he should have been working on.

We got the carpet installed and furniture moved in on Friday the 22nd and our shipment arrived on Tuesday the 26th. So that all worked out perfectly.

I still have a few little Christmas things I've noticed here and there that need to be put away. There are still boxes of things in the parlor, bedroom and bathroom that need to be unpacked and put away. The old sewing closet needs to be cleaned out and refitted for an office. Finish organizing/setting up the new sewing room. I'm hoping that I will be able to get most of those done this next week so I can dig into February's projects, which are: finish work on the 2nd apt. and clean out the loft. I think I will need lots of encouragement and maybe even some help or I might wimp out on the loft. It will be another big job and I am tired.