Day 2 of the Basement Battle

So today was our second day of battle against the basement. It went pretty well. My friends Rachael and Bob came to lend a hand, since Adam injured his ankle at work a couple weeks ago and still isn’t up to doing much. We have a very motley crew, between Adam’s ankle, my dad’s broken ribs, and my being a midget (being 4’11” is a handicap, not only physically but mentally. You have no idea how many “Lollipop Guild” jokes I have to endure daily).

But anyway, despite the Mötley-ness of our Crüe, we accomplished a lot. Bob was tearing out walls and ripping down ceilings like King Kong, and Rachael jumped right in and grabbed a sledgehammer and started swingin’ like a pro while I lugged trash barrels full of basement out to the dumpster.

So you saw what the basement looked like “before”:

And this is what it looked like after a few hours of work yesterday:

As you can see, we got about 1/3rd of the basement cleared.

And this is how it looked after working for a few hours today:

We got all of the floor ripped up, buuuut the dumpster company only dropped off a 10 yard when they were supposed to bring us a 30 yard. So this was what happened:

Not cool. We could have gotten it all done-- especially with our awesome helpers there being all helpful and stuff—but we had no more dumpster left for rubbish disposal. Big bummer! So now we have to get another dumpster (um, hopefully at no charge since it was their screw-up), and then spend another few hours picking up the last of the debris and putting it into said dumpster.

By the way, here are some of the pigs that adorn the border of the kitchen:

Definitely, definitely, need to get rid of the pigs. Sorry little pigs.

The only expenses today were:

-lunch for the crew

-paper towels

-toilet paper

which brought our running total to $1795.

Oh, but Adam found a new Budweiser pool stick in the basement, so that's gotta count for something.