Fill 'Er Up

In my last post, I mentioned that we had taken the cast iron tub out so that we could refinish it.  My husband has almost finished it with the exception of a little rust around the drain  that he is working on removing but all in all it looks so good!  This weekend we worked on getting the bathroom ready so we can move it in, fill it up with water and use it once we get the faucets installed.  Here's what it looks like now:

The legs were painted silver but I think I will paint them black to match the tub.  Didn't love the look after we did it---thoughts?

We got the cement board put down on the floor and it's ready for tile and the entire bathroom has new drywall.  It was quite the ordeal hanging sheetrock in a tiny space---we would get the sheetrock in the room and every time we brought in a big piece of sheetrock one of us was on the wrong side of the sheetrock and we couldn't get out.  Sorry, but it was kind of funny for two rookies who are trying to figure it out as we go.  Then at one point we were holding sheetrock up on the ceiling by our heads because we were so tired our arms were just about to give out---think we are just old and weak!  We don't always have the tools the professionals use but somehow we improvise and get it done! Here's our proof.

The most exciting news from our work this weekend is that we now have air conditioning!  For the last few days the temperatures have been 104-109 degrees, we cranked that AC down to 70 and came back the next morning to a cool house.  A huge thanks to Tyler, my cousin's son, for coming to install it for us in one of the hottest days we have had in June.  He did an awesome job and we are so glad to get that done.

 

I would be remiss if I didn't share one our our treasures we came upon.  This house just continues to give up little surprises every time we turn around.  While we installed the third door on the side of the house we found a 1952 Abilene Reporter newspaper stuffed in the door jamb.  It was from December 22, 1952 and the headlines were about the Korean War.  It was also full of grocery ads and ads for Christmas.  When you look at the prices from 70 years ago you will see how crazy low prices were and fruit was sold at 1/2 cents per pound---given our current grocery prices we would love to buy some of these groceries today!

As I continue to say.....there is more to come!