Removing kitchen tile

Removal of the kitchen tile is one of the first demolition activities we can do ourselves, so yesterday we chipped up a bunch of it. Under it we found some ancient linoleum, and under that is the original oak flooring. Unfortunately it looks like it's rotted quite a bit, and will need to be replaced. Boo.

Removing ivy from front of house

We found out that ivy is okay if it's growing on something impervious like a chimney, but NOT okay if it's growing on something like cedar shingles, so we tore a bunch of it off, which was a lot of fun!