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we got a window quote, and yikes! shocking. this quote was for top-of-the-line marvin clad wood windows (primed wood interior and aluminum clad exterior) - and was for contractors pricing plus an architects discount...but it was still about 1.5-2x what we were thinking. but we've recently been talking about doing all wood windows instead - they will look better and maintain the integrity of our 1935 house. yes, they're more maintenance, and we have to paint them, but on the plus side, they're less expensive than clad... and we just feel like its the right thing to do. so, we'll get a couple more quotes.
sorry, no update to post this weekend. anthony was out of town and i took the weekend off to rest. we have gotten a second framing quote and a window quote should be coming in by tomorrow. we need to work on getting the building permit this week!
so now that the roof is fixed, i'm pulling down the last of the damaged sheetrock in the top of the closet in the back bedroom upstairs, and then this falls down from the attic:
it's a rat or a squirrel skeleton, one - because as you can see it's hanging from its tail.
this is the head of the rat/squirrel skeleton that fell off the body and that i accidentally stepped on with a sickening crunch as i quickly climbed down from my ladder:
at this point, i am near tears at the foulness that i am dealing with, and i tell anthony that i don't want to do this anymore and ask if he can finish, and he just laughs and says, "you have to finish!" jerk.
that thing did not want to come down, and i didn't want to get remotely close to it, so i'm blindly using a crowbar to try to shake it down from the top of the closet while the rest of my body is outside of the closet, and finally it falls with a shower of insulation...
sick.
so, if any of anthony's friends or coworkers are reading this, please tell him he's a bad husband and call him a girl (or something similar and more imaginative), because he's always doing this to me - making me kill spiders or palmetto bugs...moving on...
this weekend we also began taking down the plaster and lath from the one room that still has the original plaster...

and anthony also pulled off some more of the aluminum siding from the front of the house...
good stuff.
i don't even want to think about the possibility of other carcasses in the attic...