12/15/24

 We arrived at separate times on Friday. Some people were on vacation at work, and I stayed and worked part of the day to help out. Rick arrived before lunch. He worked on taping, bedding, and mudding all weekend. I have zero skills with that and just ran errands and found stuff for Rick when he needed it most of the weekend. 

On Saturday, I made a trip to the hardware store in Seymour for more mud. We met Kemp/Becky/Kamryn/Mother at Ranchland for lunch and (not Rick) made a trip to the cemetery to check out Daddy's new headstone and put flowers on his, Ronald's, and Lloyd's graves. We also checked out a lot of the old graves and located the founder of Benjamin's grave. Rick, Mother and I also attended a Christmas party on Saturday night.

On Sunday, I swept and cleaned up dried mud/paper and swept all of the rooms. We decided to go ahead and pull all of the paneling and sheetrock in the hallway and put up new sheetrock, so I completed the removal on the north and west walls and now just lack the east wall. Rick put up corner beads in the bedroom windows and walls and mudded those in the 2nd bedroom. 

We have lots more mudding to do throughout the house so will continue next weekend.

Benjamin is named after this guy's son who was killed by lightning strike (founded in 1884)

Sanding a little on the edges to do taping & bedding in living room (ceiling to walls)

Glueing and stapling down the corner beads in the 2nd bedroom

North wall of hallway prior to removal of old sheetrock (paneling was removed last month)

North hallway wall after removal and cleanup

West hallway wall with paneling and sheetrock

West hallway wall after removal and cleanup

Corner bead on windows and wall corner (right) in master bedroom

Windows and wall corner mudded in

Windows mudded in--2nd bedroom