Oh the Humanity...

Well, last night my oh so brave husband set out five rat traps with Peanut butter and we arrived at the house this morning with four sprung traps and three bodies - one in the front bedroom, one in the dining room, and one in the attic. The fifth trap still had peanut butter and was not sprung, so Steve thinks we got them all. Lets hope so! He also sealed up the basement to prevent more from coming in. While down there, he found another one, it had died of other causes and was quite smelly ( so I hear, I won't go within two rooms of the things). To top off the day, while we were prepping the kitchen floor for the new linoleum, he took a second look under the cabinets and found another mummified one. Sigh... Hopefully, with the basement sealed up and the occupants dealt with, we are done with the rats. (and to think I complain about ants)
The good news is that we got the kitchen 98% finished... I scrubbed the rest of the cupboards & drawers last night, and Steve had scrubbed most of the walls over the last week, so now all that is left is the ceiling to clean before painting. Steve also filled in all the imperfections on the walls and trim, so all that is needed is a light sanding and we are ready to go. Today we installed the new floor an it really looks nice for 98 cents a square foot it looks really nice. I picked a greyish brown slate looking tile, and it works nicely with the blond oak cabinets. We laid it at a diagonal to give it some more interest, and we are going to paint the walls a very pale yellow and the trim a greyish white.
We also put up bead board paneling inside the dining room built in alcove. (Sadly, the one we uncovered was so chewed up by rats and covered in filth that had soaked through the wood, so we had to removed it and BLEACH the walls behind it). For now, we are just going to install some shelves, and at some point later I will rebuild it.
Steve also scraped up all the old linolum in the hallway that was chipping off in preparation for carpet. Sadly, half the hardwood floor is wrecked for repeated flooding from the bathroom over that past 90 years. Oddly enough, the wood is not oak, but appears to be maple. The bedrooms also share the same wood. The living room, dinning room and entry were all floored in oak. We are making some real progress, and by next weekend, we should have the painting started an the bathroom close to being done. I am almost done with the wainscoting, and then I can put a coat of primer and paint, then we can lay the floor in there to. I am going to use the same tile as I did in the kitchen.
tomorrow is a rest day for us, so we don't totally wear ourselves out. I am going to try and take some time off this upcoming week so I can get the bathroom done, but I have a lot of project work going in at the office to.