Pioneer Woman at Heart

  Conversation with my husband.... "Hey, Mom gave me her set of red glass dishes to put in the glass door hutch.  In order to do that we have to jack up the floor first." Well, that was followed by an entire day of trying to access under the kitchen with two accesses we already have.  Didn't happen.  We created a 3rd.  Got in a few feet, and dug out some dirt to get to the beam.   Jacked up the floor only after an entire day of work, to find we have dry rot. Guess who is ripping out their kitchen floor?  Yep.  We can't do sister joists from the access.  No room for anyone to get in.  Seriously old house problems.  Guess I'm gonna get new kitchen flooring out of this now.  Just what we don't need.  I may live with a wood floor until next year, and put new flooring in the kitchen. On the same day, after all that bad news, we went to town to pick up a new recliner we bought for Mom.  We picked it up, delivered it, a...

  "What?" exclaimed the kids!  "Why would you want an outhouse?! For about the la st four years, I've be en telling the f amily it would be nice to h ave an outhou se.   Well, we found out we hav e a leak un der the house, under the kitchen bathroom.  This is part of the old farm house, and who ever put in the new parts (before we moved in), did a terrible job , according to Hubby.   I also fou n d out there is only about 1 1/2 f eet or less, dee p of a "crawl space" and we cann ot go under the house.  I guess back in the 30 's or 40's they didn't think th at someday those pipes may not hold , and someone would need to craw l under th ere. We ha d to cut a hole in t he bathroom floor. F i rst the toilet was re moved.  The seal was good.  Th e guys moved it out to the side porch.  In the phot o above, the toilet is next to the wall, and on the other side of hubby is the stand up shower (that small).  Then the w...