Previous Daily Quotes

Being an interesting history of the Project

Some say it would be easier to put it all in a pile and light it, sorta start from the fresh.

This is, by far, the most serious rebuild we have done! Don feeling rather overwhelmed upon arriving at the project.

It is raining so hard it is like being in the shower with high water pressure. (It doesn't rain like this where Don is from.)

There sure is a lot of rotted wood. (The exterior walls under the windows)

We will have to crawl under there and haul 50 years of rotten things out by hand.

Look at that rotted joist and beam. (Due to the fact there are no eaves)

What do you think about taking it all of the way down to the ground and starting fresh. (Since we have to replace all of the rotted wood we might as well take the whole house apart)

Next time we remodel a place lets remodel it. (Aaron thinking out loud)

How many times have you thought about putting a match to it? (Answer we used to think about it everyday, sort of use it for fire dept. training)

18 dump runs....so far

Look at those piles of crap, every time we turn a corner there is more s..t to haul away. (Don tired of hauling 25 years of accumulated junk)

The house is gone 60 yards in three hours for a total of 158 yards, (Aaron and I loaded the rest by hand.)

The site is ready for the foundation....tomorrow it starts.....hopefully.

We have turned the corner and are actually building.

We've had a few minor setbacks that have resulted in extraordinary successes.

The rain always seemed to let up just when we needed it to.

As soon as the house was dry so was the weather.