Last night we dragged our heels getting over to the house. I had the daunting task of removing wall paper and poor Rob had the disgusting task of getting the clog out of the 50+ year old poopie pipe.

We stopped at Max's to pick up a snake and went straight to work. Since the wall paper remover needed to be mixed with hot water, we had to turn on the water and find a way to heat it up since the hot water heater is disconnected.

I leanred how to turn the water on at the street and turn on the main water under the house. Now that we had water we had to heat it up, but the stove was in the iving room. We dragged the stove back into the kitchen, hooked it up to the gas, plugged it in and heated up the neccessary water. I pulled off the vinyl wallpaper and soaked the next layer with the remover.

The remover had to sit for 15 minutes so I checked on Rob. He had been in the upstairs bathroom and decided the snake was not heavy duty enough to get the block from that bathroom and I found him in the downstairs bathroom with rubber gloves on and the snake 1/2 way down the hole in the bathroom where the toilet used to sit. The final decision was that we needed something heavy duty to get the clog out and we may need to get the clog out from the vent on the roof.

It has been raining in Maryland for the past 3 weeks and Rob pulls out the ladder, places it on the crumbling brick planter on top of a mega piece of wood and asks me to hold the ladder. I keep thinking 'this is a percarious situation' over and over again. He makes it on to the roof and then announces the roof is slippery. Argh! He spider-man's over to the vent and looks down. He smiles and snickers, he says it appears a big fat turd is sticking out and appears to be part of the clog so he shimmys down the roof, down the ladder and gets a 8 foot pipe. He spider-man's back onto the roof and the pipe is too short. At that point the project is ofitially put off to the next day when we can get the equipment we need to unclog the pipes.

The 15 minutes had passed and I head back into the kitchen to remove the wallpaper. Lo and behold!!!! the stuff just peels off without any effort. My God, that was easy!!!! So far removing the wallpaper has been my favorite job. I even got behind the stove where I discovered another onion. Layers of yellow 70's sunflower wall paper under the 80's farmhouse wallpaper. We got about 75% of the wall paper off the kitchen to reveal great looking walls underneath.

p.s. we got home in time for me to paint my toe nails! What a great day.