Putter, putter.

I'm still in the prep phase with a lot of things. This past weekend I finished scrubbing the dining room - The easiest room to do this to, now that the house contains stuff. This had been the holding room as I moved, and is now empty. The ceiling, walls, and floor has now been scrubbed. I removed the external phone box from the baseboard molding, and lifted the rug for an extra deep clean.

No further floor damage discovered.

I'm debating what to do with this room. It's going to get a coat of paint, likely a new light fixture/rug/window treatment. This was the wall I'd considered putting a wood or pellet stove on. There's a chimney that runs in the wall about a foot to the right from that door frame to the kitchen.
I'm kind of in a state of brain freeze about this room though, in a "chicken or egg" sort of way. I'm not particularly fond of the current light/curtains, but they are functional. Paint should complement what ever's going in the room, and I'm not quite sure what that would be yet. The ceiling will be white, the trim will probably be gloss white. (Though that will be determined by what the speed heater reveals on the trim. If there's varnish under there, I'll have to see how damaged it is.)
I have a meeting with a colleague here at work to pick her brain about interior design. Maybe talking it out will help shake this room's funk.

I spent the rest of Saturday in a full assault on the bush mound right outside my back door, carefully separating bittersweet from ivy from everything else. The mound is now a third of what is was, but all the bittersweet is out. I still need to find my saw and take care of the maple suckers that are growing in the middle of it all though.

I was going to continue washing surfaces yesterday, but wound up running a lot of errands instead. My thought being that if I do wash and repair the walls and ceilings, if I get guys banging around up in the crawl space, they are going to shake loose a lot of debris, and I will probably wind up having to do the whole process over again. I don't like a lot of redo, so I'm at a stalemate up there.