Day Two--lots done!

The main thing accomplished today was removal of ALL the carpeting from all the rooms except the kitchen and bathroom. This involved not only pulling up the carpet and pad, but pulling out a million little staples used to hold down the pad, and the carpet tack strip, which was nailed every half inch. We still have a tiny bit of tack strip left to get rid of, but everything else is done.

The dining room, which is in the worst shape--wear/water-marked spots and TONS of nails (to prevent squeaks?):
The hall was also under attack by someone with a nail gun:
But some (like the bedrooms) looked pretty darn good!

We also removed the ugly vinyl floor in the kitchen to find:

Yep. MORE ugly vinyl floor! But this is so ugly that it's quaint, I think. And, better yet, it's not torn, so we can put pergo or vinyl or tile or whatever right on top of it.

G. replaced the locks in the front door as well.

Then we tore the wallpaper off the bathroom walls. We tried to remove the carpet, but it's glued down with some gross, gummy stuff, so that'll have to wait for another day.
And we vacuumed the entire basement--top to bottom. There's still some water leaking and the floor is SO peely that it's not possible to do very much down there right now, but at least it feels cleaner.