Midweek progress report

A quick update- I'll post pics later...
Friday and Saturday we cleaned dust from the floor refinishing off of every concievable surface in our house. I was very thankful for our good friend the Shop Vac! It made everything much easier, and we really needed to clean the ceiling fans anyway, so this was a good excuse. I really wish we had done this before we moved in, but we could barely afford the house last year, so it wouldn't have been possible. It was worth all of the work and money though, because the floors look awesome- it's like a different house. Sunday we finished up the last of the cleaning, and removed storm windows from most of the house (that was a job- at least they came off easily once the screws were out, but every single screw on every single window was stripped and had to be beat upon with a hammer and screwdriver to get it out). The painter started right on schedule Monday, and the work he has done so far looks terrific. I'm so excited to see the end result. We were just going to have the windows stripped and repainted, but now we're extending the work to most of the house. I forgot to take before pictures on Sunday- I was really tired when we got the last window off, but I'll post pictures of the finished work. The gutter guys start today as well, so it looks like most of the outside work on the house should finish before the end of September--- if we can get the porch finished!