The goal for Day 3 was to peel the popcorn off the ceiling, then remove the carpet and baseboards.  I woke up to the sounds of Eden’s tree crew in my yard!  Hooray!  It was going to be an even better day than I thought. They had 2 climbers.  One was the best climber in the midwest (not pictured.)  This second guy was really good too.  And hilarious.  The first guy was having promotional pictures taken while he worked on our property.  The second guy said, “Hey, I want my picture taken too.  I want to be famous.”

Another crew member said, “Can’t, You’re too pretty.  We are about tree service here and if we put your picture on the flyer, girls would be calling for dates.  We’re not that kind of company.”  So here you go on my blog.  Now you can be semi-famous–second tree climber.  

They took down 2 huge walnut trees growing way too close to the house.  The climber would cut off 3 foot sections.  Tie it off and then slowly lower it down to the crew on the ground.  This made sure they didn’t crack the driveway just dropping stuff and to make sure nothing hit the roof.  When the logs were on the ground, many of them were hollow.  The tree was not healthy and I’m glad we didn’t put off the project any longer.

But back to Heather’s room.  Heidi was faithful to work with me until the project was done.  What a great big sister!

Darren got into the action a little too.

We finished in just about an hour–hooray!  So after lunch, we worked on mudding and patching the divets.  I was feeling really great about things at this point.  Since we weren’t scheduled to mud until tomorrow…but ahem, patching and sanding is a LOOOONG process, especially for the unskilled.  Time would tell that if we hadn’t started patching early, we would be too far behind to make our deadline.  Lesson for the day: rest when the project is done.  If there’s still time  keep plugging ahead.