Hidden treasure

Saturday morning, let's do some damage!
Before we could start tearing into the walls, we needed a sleep in. So we did that and were up n at 'em by 9:30. We went and borrowed some tools and a trolley thing for moving heavy items from Capt Chris Radburn.

We moved everything out of the way and started hacking the lining off our wall on the kitchen and laundry side. There was a bit of damage in there from previous termite damage, but nothing as terrible as we imagined.

Turns out that the top half of the walls are made of asbestos fibre cement sheeting, so we avoided ripping into that. We just removed the bottom half which is primarily oregon timber. I also removed all the tiles from the laundry wall, and took out the laundry tub.

While I was hoping to find a rare penny or gold watch, I did find 10 cents. So... I guess that can go straight back off the loan :D

After we finished removing all this stuff, we decided to keep going and remove the lino from the kitchen floor, which was laid on top of masonite sheeting, which was on top of the original floor boards. The floorboards underneath were not looking that great. They're probably not worth the effort trying to restore, since there are some weak areas and also a few splits and missing chunks.

Evidently there was some old newspaper on top of the floorboards at some stage. Although it was gone now, you could still see a ghosted stencil of the pages on the floorboard. One page I could make out had a Christmas feature headed "Gay ways to wrap your gifts". I found the corner of an old newspaper which was from the early 60's, so the above headline is just another example of how certain "things" have perverted our society and taken ownership over some old words. Dare I say any more, even in my own journal?

We did a lot today, then went to Narromine to pick up the boys and stayed the evening. We had chinese for dinner (again!) and watched some investigation shows about murders on mum and dad's pay tv. Sad and scarey stories!

It was a long, but FRUITFUL day! Can't wait til things get rolling on Monday.

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