The rest of September 2025: we bought a "new" house.

9/11 Thursday. After we got home from Hawaii we bought a house on the block south of us.  Our friends, Martin and Elida Numbers, decided it was time to sell their house and lot. We purchased the house and lot (0.66 acres total) for $80,000.  This renovation could be a few posts on its own.  I'm writing in Feb 2026, and we are not done yet!

The house was unoccupied for several years and served as a storage shed, then the Numbers house on the lot next door burned down, so they got this one fixed up enough to live in. 

9/13 Melissa and Grandma Workman took the kids to the fall festival.  I spent the day working on demolition at the house.  


9/21 - My birthday dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Workman's. Melissa covered one of Grandma's famous chocolate zucchini cakes with ganache and raspberries.  YUM!

9/23 - Tuesday, I will end up taking about 1 day off each week to work on the house.  This day we are pulling up flooring. In the living room we took up carpet, several layers of linoleum and layers of newspapers.  I think this room had papers from the 50's, other rooms had 60's and 70's. 

9/25 - Thursday, Finley joined in the riding lessons.  Lynette also put him to work around her place a few times. 

9/29 - Monday, I spent the day ripping down the walls in one of the other front rooms.  There was a news paper stuffed in the wall, crumpled and brittle.  It was a copy of the Salt Lake Tribune from February 26, 1939.  The paper was so brittle, and I so impatient, that I could only rescue this one section.  A photo of two motorcycle policemen from New York City, captioned "The Girls Say Men Are Sissies and Point to the Fur-Lined Helmets Recently Adopted by New York City Policemen. Their Old Type Headgear, They Complained, Gave Them Sinus Trouble." That was the only thing in that wall, no insulation at all.  

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