Deja Vu

I worked from home yesterday since it was my dad's last day in town. Thank goodness I did because I was able to see (and capture for posterity) what I missed last summer: Davidson coming through the ceiling. Here it is:

I wasn't able to take any pictures of the process, unfortunately. Here is the finished product of the day's work, though. The header is up, the wall has been removed, the temporary wall has been taken down and the closets are ready to be framed in.

On a sad note, my dad had to go back to New York in the morning. Last night we went and celebrated a great week of hard work at Longboard's in Pacific Beach with fish tacos. The Discovery Channel filmed their follow up to the Deadliest Catch ("After the Catch") there last season, and all the captains had signed a table -- I wanted to show it to my dad. And they have the best fried fish tacos in town. We stuffed ourselves and came home and went to bed.

We saw my dad off at the airport this morning; I was crying like a baby. It was amazing to have him here staying with us and helping us. We were able to get a huge jump start on the summer's work because of him (and Derrick and Tanner.) I just wish he could have stayed longer.

Today we got a late start, mainly because we were so pooped from the late nights and early mornings we've had since my dad got here. After a nap and a trip to Home Depot, Jesse and Tanner started working around 12:30. Tanner worked on getting our old bedroom window out of its frame and creating the new frame for the new window (the new master bedroom/bathroom wall came wayyy to close to the old window -- so we downsized and moved the window to the new center of the room. Meanwhile, Jesse worked in the garage on some fixes that are required for our electrical meter inspection. Believe it or not, someone in the past removed the bottom four feet or so of six studs in our garage. We think they were trying to make more room for a work bench -- but nothing was supporting that side of the garage and our inspector didn't like that so much.

I'll post pictures of the window and the new studs in the garage tomorrow -- none were taken today.

Tomorrow, Tanner and Jesse should be able to start the demolition of the wall between the bathroom and the master bedroom. Things are moving right along!