Cleaning house (Day 375)

Only time for a quicky post.
In order to save a few bucks (i.e., beer money) I told our painter that we'd clean up after he finished. No big deal, just some paper on the floors and plastic on the windows. Oh yeah. Nancy and I spent most of today (Thursday) pulling down plastic, pulling staples and ripping up paper. Interestingly, the thin Kraft paper that Franks daughter laid down to protect the floor did a pretty good job where it stayed down or in place. After a few coats of paint dried on it, the paper was more like a thin tarp. This made it easy to just fold it up into reasonable size bundles and load up the trailer for another dump run. We put the 14 empty paint pails (5 gals) in the trailer, but I discovered that its rated as recyclable so I'll try to unload that stuff for free. Now the shop vac is coming out for a final cleanup before the flooring gets delivered next week. By the way, that shop vac is the 5 HP, 10 gal one I bought from Sears to remodel the Denver house in 1976. 33 years old, butt ugly, but it still sucks—big time.