Ettes’ Remodel

Our next official pet sitting gig is at Mary Ellen and Dan’s for their cat Lucky - who thinks he is a dog. But, how easy is it to pet sit a cat! You don’t have to take it for a walk, you don’t have to bribe it with treats, and you don’t have to pretend to be another dog and play tug-o-war with it. Although, Lucky does love to sit in your lap and give you tender little head butts and lick your hair - all very endearing! This gig takes us through Christmas, so we didn’t have to worry about decorating the RV for Christmas…  

We are nearly 2 weeks into the remodel and it has been the demolition phase. The first week was focused on pulling everything out - down to the studs. This second week has been focused on removing the flooring throughout. The removal of the flooring is the main reason that we needed to move out. And the reason for removing the flooring is because we are installing radiant heat under the new flooring…

Well, it is finally official! After three years of Covid and design and just thinking about it - we have finally begun!! The movers came last Wednesday and Thursday and the demo started today! This is basically a whole house remodel where we are ripping up the floors. Hence the necessity to move out. The blessing out of that is that it forced us to do a lot of purging ahead of time. Nonetheless, it still took the movers all day to pack and another 3/4 of a day to load the truck. As soon as the movers had cleared everything out, Nan wondered why we needed to do a remodel?!?   Here is a sense of how our house started at the beginning of this next adventure: And, this is a sense of how things were when we left this morning: Let’s see what the next steps bring…

While this is supposed to capture our remodel adventure, part of the adventure is what we are doing while the house is undergoing its transformation. So, I originally failed to start from the true beginning of our adventure - which was a week before the start of demolition… One week before demolition, we had our first ‘pet sitting for room and board and laundry’ gig! This was at Marcia and Ned’s house on Trilogy Parkway where they needed us to watch Chuck and Maddy - two white terriorish pups that were just a pleasure once Maddy warmed up to us. We called her Licky Lips because she loves to give kisses. The good part of this gig for us was that it started on Monday and the movers were coming on Wednesday to pack up the house and Thursday to load the truck and take everything away to storage. Also, starting on Thursday, Daniel started some pre-demo work by removing everything that was salvageable and finding a new home or a new purpose for it. He is a hard worker and saved us a lot of g...