It’s official…our house is now under construction!  Yipeeeeee!!

But seriously.

Charles and I went over to the house yesterday to check up on the progress.  Here are the beautiful sights we walked into…

You may think that you sense sarcasm there, but you’d be WRONG!  I never thought I’d be so happy to see raunchy carpet strips, beat up walls, scaffolds, and construction lights in my house!!!!  Today is our “plaster guy’s” third day in the house.  He has been slaving away scraping the walls and finding the (many, unfortunately) cracks in the plaster.  But it’s got to get worse before it gets better, right?  He’s planning on at least a couple of weeks just to get the prep and plaster finished, then we will have to wait about 30 days before we can even think about primer, much less paint.

This rain has made me very nervous about our back porches falling off, so I was extremely relieved to see these bad boys in the kitchen last night:

I’ve already gotten the report this afternoon that the back porches have been securely “jacked” and the workers have started the process of sorting the wood into usable and non-usable piles.  My sigh of relief can probably be heard for miles and miles.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, we are now armed and dangerous.  Well, really just armed.  We had our alarm system hooked up over the weekend, so don’t be getting any ideas!

Happy Hump Day, people!