Phew, here we are 10 days after the start of redoing the floor. A week ago Monday, August 27th, Gerry took up the old carpet and pad. The carpet came up quickly and easily. The pad was held down with thousands of staples that Gerry had to hand pull each one out of the floor. Here is Sundance wondering, "Where did the soft stuff go?" A rude awakening is coming to the 4-legged kids cause now they have nothing to give them traction while chasing each other through and around the house.

We had to move the big furniture from one side of the living room to the other because it was too big to move anywhere else and too heavy to move far.

On with the show! The first couple of rows are installed. The corners next to the fireplace took a couple of hours or measuring and cutting and gluing till they were right. As you can see Gerry is laying the wood on a bias, parallel with the fireplace. He has to lay out the wood before cutting and installing so the joints don't run into each other and for the variance in color to be mixed nicely. Gerry also painted the end wall where the big furniture goes, the rest of the walls will be painted when the floor is finished and we are not on a time limit in returning the rented nail gun.

Proof Gerry is installing..... Can you imagine a man who in April had a heart attack and a double by-pass surgery now, just a few months later, installing 650 sq. ft. of hard wood floor? He is amazing!!

The living room is done....here is the front door showing where Gerry took up the old wood and replaced it with the new. Looking Good!!!

Gerry had to go back to work today. His week vacation ended and the floor is not done. He has the front hall almost done and started on the 45 degree turn to the next hallway. His plan is to cut and fit all the boards in place then rent the nail gun one more time on his next day off and complete installing the floor. Neither of us had any idea this was going to take so long or be so back breaking for Gerry.

Amid all this construction, last Friday Gerry's mom was at the grocery store picking out an onion when her hip bone broke and down she went. Ambulance took her to the hospital, surgery to replace her hip happened on Saturday. She will be moved to a therapy facility either today or tomorrow for two weeks. We are baby sitting her dog Jackie so now we have 6 dogs having nervous break downs from all the noise and disruption. I am growing more gray hair and tripping over an additional dog as I walk around the house....but such is life and it comes at you fast. :)