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Seeya in the funny pages11/7/2022 I worked on making forward progress on the demolition throughout the week, a little at a time. It’s green and has a skull at the stirring end. And a swizzle stick from a restaurant/bar in Chicago. Some old rubber balls…soccer ball and football…so children had been here before my girls’ noise isn’t the first to fill the building. Were they wondering who would eventually find it? Did they even imagine it could be a woman, doing most of the work herself to renovate the space?įarmer also found some old stuff on Saturday underneath the steps leading out onto the roof. I would love to know more about the person who put that newspaper under their shiny new linoleum. In my mind, I became a mother, raising children and keeping a house during a war with no husband by my side, no word from him in months, only the reportings on Allied movements coming from the front, probably weeks old, to hold my hope aloft. I cannot describe how I felt reading this paper. Germany suffered its first major defeat of the war in 1943. I folded it up as best I could and carried it downstairs into the sunlight where I could see it better. I took a giant scoop of plaster and linoleum, heaved it over into the heavy plastic tote I’m using to transport all of the trash down the stairs and into the trailer, and there it was…Ī Kansas City Star from March 28, 1943, opened up and laid flat, the grooves and grain of the hardwood floor forever impressed into its pages. It works wonderfully for scooping up the chunks of plaster that I have been scraping off the walls. An old aluminum grain shovel that I swiped from the feed room at the farm. I hadn’t even intended to remove that piece of linoleum for awhile, because it was protecting the hardwood in the landing, which takes a daily beating and gets a lot of stuff drug across it.īut, I had to remove the ancient linoleum (there was actually 2 layers of it) so that I could remove the last piece of lovely decorative trim in order to completely expose the plaster and lath that I have to remove to expose the stud walls.Įarly in the week, I was using a scoop shovel to remove that linoleum and the plaster that I had already scraped down onto it from the ceiling. How would you feel about finding a 77-year-old newspaper under the flooring in your apartment?
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