Oct., 2004  This is Hallie pulling staples from those firring strips.  Imagine keeping your arms above your head for hours at a time.  Cheerfully too. This room had a closet built under the stairs to the cupola on the paneled wall.  Since the stairs will not be enclosed, but open, we closed up the opening to a closet. Dry wall looks so clean More drywall. Cousin Bill and his wife Paula came from San Antonio, Texas to help.  Bill is inspecting the framing for the tray ceiling. More framing on the ceiling. Dry walling on the tray ceiling.  Mike and Bill did all this a day. Bill gets clean up duty. Ceiling is looking good. Gary (brother), Lynn (sister-in-law), Kristen (adorable 4-yr old niece), Macy (chocolate lab) and Lulabelle (new puppy, also a lab?) came to visit.  They brought us this bed all the way from North Carolina.  Then Lynn "distressed" it.  No help too young to put to slave labor. BEAUTIFUL! Mudded the joints in the drywall. Bedroom 2 with primer. More primer. Here's Karol to paint. First the ceiling from a ladder. Now with a extension pole on the roller. Now the purple paint.  The color has a fancy name, but can't remember it.  Something to do with grapes.  (see a theme, here?) Just like on Home Improvement!  Voila!  It's done.  Thank you Karol! The ceiling in this room is really pretty. Molding around door is white now. Jean's Dad doing the wiring.   Thank you Dad!  We have light! This view does not tell the tale of the floor.  Hours and hours and days and nights, sanding, filling, sanding and laying on polyurethane.  It sure looks nice.