So. Much. Progress.

No, really. My brain hurts. In the last few weeks we've:

Pretty much completely rewalled/receilinged our great room (minus the part were we put the last coat of joint compound on, smooth it out, prime and paint).

Restored a doorway opening where someone had decided a door shouldn't be (need to find/make trim to match the rest of the house).

Installed three of our beautiful new cabinets, plus the section of our counter top with the sink in it.

Connected the drain AND water line/faucet for the kitchen sink.

 Installed an outside covered GFCI receptacle that I've been putting off for ages because I had to work in the moat:

Cleaned up our future office/laundry room (we've been keeping materials there) so that you can actually see three of the walls and the floor! The floor is gorgeous.

Ground in dirt from the carpet pad on the right side,
the nasty cleaned off on the left.

Discovered a cool wallpaper pattern beneath years of replacements, and actually saved enough of it to see what it was really like!

It's a very neat, very thin, very delicate paper. Water completely peels it off the wall. The pattern is cool, and seems like it's the first one to have been put on the wall (or someone took any old paper off first).

Connected the toilet to the new water lines and actually put the tank on it!

Any one of these things deserves a post all to itself. Cramming them all into one seems kind of disrespectful. I should work on that. There are more projects we've done as well! I'll be more descriptive as soon as I can pull off stopping work on the house before dark.

We're still alive

Just working like crazy and not a moment to do anything else, it seems.

Major update: Kitchen sink is in, and drain is connected! Some photos might be nice sometime soon, and a proper write-up.

Nearing the end of this phase of fixing things and just finding more things to fix, and we're actually able to start finishing things. It's a very exciting time.