Rob took off yesterday to work on the house. That man is so motivated!!!! When I describe what he has done, it pales in comparison with seeing it and it doesn’t take into amount the manual labor he put into the bathroom.

He is in the process of framing out the bathroom, this means laying 2x4’s along the perimeter of the bathroom on the floor AND on the ceiling. After all of that is hammered in, then he puts in beams that go from the wood he just put in on the floor to the wood he just put in the ceiling. This creates the frame for the drywall. If the wood is straight and at the appropriate angles, putting the drywall up is much easier.

Last night, I got home from work and was getting changed into my work clothes when I heard the garage door open. Rob came racing into the garage, grabbed the billion ton jack he uses to prop up the cars, said he broke his Honda jack and zipped back out. Since I do not know much about framing I thought this was pretty funny and could not imagine what on earth he was doing with the jack.

I get to the house and he is in the bathroom with the jack on 2 pieces of wood and has the end of a 2x4 on the jack and the other end pushing up on one of the joist’s. It was quite a scene! The joist had dropped to 1 inch below all the others. Apparently, the attic bathroom did not have appropriate support under the floor, hence the upstairs bathroom floor is sloped down and if you were to jump on it – you would fall through. Rob fixed that problem by addition so much additional support if a F5 twister ran through our house, the only thing left standing would be the framing in the bathroom and an elephant could walk through the upstairs bathroom and the floor wouldn’t give an inch.

While Rob was hammering and sawing in the bathroom, I was prepping the kitchen for painting by sitting outside, trying to get years and years of grease off the kitchen cabinets. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I soaked those bastards in 409 and they are STILL GREASY!!!!! Arghh. I’m going to sand the grease off them.

I’m a little limited in what I can do, so once I got all the hardware off the drawers and cabinet fronts and got the mostly de greased I went home and made a huge vat of Jambalaya that will feed up for the next few nights.