Fun With Tools

So somewhere towards the end of last week we wrote a post and then somehow managed to loose it. That post was about the actual closing of the house (we finally got the seller put aside its slavish love of bureaucracy for a minute to sell it to us). And the subsequent fun we had with tools for the rest of the week.
A lot of banging, flying plaster and old wallpaper discoveries followed. The nicest thing we discovered was that the house dates to probably the 1800's. We were afraid it was younger (gasp!) because all records for the house were from 1940 or later. We are happy to report the discovery of some wide, hand hewn boards in the attic, square nails (the shape most nails came in before they were mass produced) and the evidence of an old stove and mantle on the lathe of the master bedroom. So it's our favorite kind of house, recycled many times!