8 Months Into Our Remodeling....Let The Sanding Begin!!!!

Wow, we have been remodeling for 8 months and have gotten a tremendous amount of work done in spite of how busy our lives are at times. All of our major demo and building projects within the house are done. We still have lots of medium sized jobs and many small loose ends to tie up.......but for now the following is a run down of our accomplishments since mid March.

March 15 - Put up tongue and groove pine on Allie's angled back wall, ran additional wiring upstairs, and put up another sheet of plywood in the storage closet.
March 16 - Put up tongue and groove on front wall of living room and almost finished putting in plywood on the side wall in the loft.
March 17 - Today we worked on the tractor!!!!!
March 21 - Today we extended the hot wire fence toward the back of the pasture.
March 22 - Connected wiring for Sara's room, hall light switches, and loft. We ran remaining wires for the AC unit and put up insulation in the loft ceiling and in Sara's room.
March 29 - Took down scaffolding, put away tools and materials and cleaned up inside and outside at the house in Lebeau for the Easter Celebration!!
March 30 - Mowed the grass at the house, cleaned up, set up scaffolding and took out tools and materials.
April 5 - Finished putting tongue and groove on front wall in living room and on Sara's wall and ceiling. We also finished the two rows of tongue and groove on the flat ceiling in the living room that was started to put in the ceiling fans so that we could have a straight edge to measure from in order to begin putting in the pine on the angled wall/ceiling in the living room.
April 7 - Began putting in tongue and groove on the angled ceiling in the living room.
April 11 - Almost finished putting up tongue and groove on angled ceiling in living room.
April 12 - Finished angled ceiling and and almost finished flat ceiling in living room with tongue and groove.
April 13 - Took a much needed break this morning and relieved a little stress by shooting a couple of rounds with a 38, a 9 mm, a 380, and a 7 mm this morning for our concealed carry class. Finished putting up tongue and groove on the living room ceiling and almost finished with the north wall.
April 18 - Finished putting up tongue and groove on the north living room wall. Kids began sanding their bedroom walls.
April 19 - Finished putting tongue and groove on the small living room wall which is also the back wall of the pantry, kids did more sanding.
April 20 - Put in banister and railing on stairs and railing and some posts on balcony upstairs using cypress trees and limbs. More sanding!!!
April 22 - Cleaned up and burned scrap wood, cut some of the grass, cleaned up the rose bush, put in cypress tree as corner post for Wyatt's bed and worked on posts for railing upstairs.