Judge Ed P. Curry

Yesterday, I spent some time in the library on Ancestry.com and discovered that the "E.P. Curry" that lived in our home from 1899 until his death in 1908 was a county judge. Still trying to fill in the gaps of the history of our home but definitely making progress!

Seeing Some Progress

Since my last bathroom update, we have completed the following:

* Replaced the portion of the floor under the tub with plywood.
* Patched up the holes left by the shower with beadboard.
* Added beadboard to the area to the left of the tub and over the door where there was no beadboard.
* Put up crown moulding (Gary is almost finished with the moulding, and then he'll put up the rest of the trim in the room).

My job is to continue getting the walls ready for painting, in other words, caulk. Then of course, it is always my job to paint, which I am happy to do since I get to choose the paint colors. My plan is to do a wide stripe around the room. I was thinking about a dark beige with a red stripe, but I'm still trying to decide. I have leftover red paint from the brick wall in the kitchen, so I'm trying to use paint that I have as we have a lot of paint we have purchased but unused.

In another area of the house...

Speaking of paint, I had purchased a gallon of paint called "Wooden Cabin" for the bathroom but didn't like it for the bathroom, so I decided to paint the bottom portion of the stairway with this color. I think it turned out nice... Take a look at the pictures. I'm trying to decide on a color for the top part of the stairway wall/landing area. Any ideas???

House History Update

Yesterday (our 14th wedding anniversary), Gary, Camryn, and I spent the afternoon in the basement of the county courthouse reviewing deed records on our home. Check out the History of Our Home link for the new information we found.

DING DONG! THE TUB IS GONE!

Those six little words are cause for celebration in the Tackert household. After some prayer on my part and manpower on Gary's part, the dreaded toilet pipe was removed out of the floor and the tub is now at the city dump! Oh yeah, we also had the help of a friend to get it into the back of Gary's truck. Thanks, Jason! The tub weighed 360 lbs. according to how much Gary had to pay to get rid of it. It had a date stamp of 5/25/1950. You should've seen the mess underneath it... 57 years of leaves and debris either blown in from under the house as there was a gaping hole or by mice or rats... oooooh! Unfortunately, my camera wasn't charged, so I couldn't get a picture of this lovely scene, but I am presenting you with a picture of the now vacant spot where the old tub sat. We are well on our way to our new bathroom!