Or so I hear. 

Dave and I are semi-covered in paint speckles from the painting of the second floor bathroom. The tile floor is withstanding dave jumping around like a oversized five year old and me falling off the ladder as I dismount from trimming near the ceiling.  In the last month, Dave has made quick work of completing the bathroom, almost single handedly (our friend gave him some guidance and initial labor) laying the floor and taping and sanding the seams on the new drywall.  I stepped in at the beginning of this week - quickly discovering I do not like sanding drywall. On the otherhand, I am perfectly happy to prime and paint.  Thus, it has taken us less then two hours per coat of paint. Dave painted the ceiling and wall down to the bulkhead level in the soft greyish white color, while I painted from the bulkhead down to where beadboard will be placed.  Today dave will measure the beadboard - which - depending on our joint approval of the second coat of paint - pending no need for a third coat - Dave will hang this evening.  Then I get to paint the trim and beadboard.  Essentially - by Friday - we should have a fully functional bathroom!

In other news, Dave's deligent daily attention to craigslist has resulted in a $2400 savings on a claw foot tub.  A woman who owns multiple properties in the Mt Washington area, posted a 100 year old claw foot for a mere $100.  The catch - it had to be moved, and promptly, from the second floor back bathroom through narrow hallways down even narrower stairways with turns, through a back door, down a narrow alleyway, and then down the grass hill (two flights of stairs worth) and into Steve's trunk.

Dave and Steve did great work getting that out- neither getting injured or strained. I, on the other hand, put my foot in the wrong place and got the extremely heavy claw foot tub on my foot - so now my right foot is turning blue and purple and green.  No bones broken - though Dave's fussing about me getting all the battle wounds whenever he does all the labor. What can I say - I am fraggiiillleee.....and clumsy....and I don't hold still or do as I am told.

We moved the tub into our next door neighbor's garage for safe keeping - as we do not have the room cleared in the back space which will become the master bath.  Also, it does not make sense to move the bathtub before we get it reglazed (which will cost us less then $400).  The feet are gorgeoulsy ornate, and now we have just to decide the color we want to glaze it and begin seriously planning the second bathroom.

The next project however, is to tear out the bathtub on the first floor and build in a new laundry room area.  Dave has put down money for a gorgeous front load set of washer and dryer - which will eventually save us the time and money of going to the laundry mat.

Dave has dibs on the first shower - I have dibs on the first soak.  looking forward to it!