It’s another one of those days where it hurts the heart a little bit to see parts of the old Harmony Hollow house go. Time to start removing the original inner walls.
When we first went through the house there was so much packrat poop that we knew we’d have to get into the walls to clean them out. We also knew that we would need to insulate better and seal everything up.
Note that when I say “we,” it means someone else. I didn’t do any of this! Although, Steve and Beth did remove 15 pounds of packrat poop before any of this even started. I don’t know what they were thinking, but it made Steve feel better to try to get it cleaned up. And it did make me feel a little better to Windex the windows so we could see the views when we visited our little money pit.
The hardest part was taking down the planks with the brands. We saved what we could and plan to use them somewhere else, later.
It was at this point that I started to lose focus of what it would eventually look like. If there aren’t solid walls, everything just kind of blurs together for me. It’s so interesting to me how hard it was to watch the demo process even though I had no ties to the place. I still swear that I was feeling it for all of the artists who had passed through the doors over the decades, wondering if they would have approved.
We’ve kept in contact with the Cross family and they’ve been very encouraging of what we’re doing. It will be fun to have them out after it’s all done.
I lost count of how many dumpsters were filled up.
I did find a little humor in that it looked far more orderly in the outgoing dumpster than it did in the house.
We just have to keep reminding ourselves that it’s on to bigger and better things, and that we have the ability to bring back features that keep the character of the original house, in an upgraded way.
