Winter Wanderings 2012 - Day #18 - 2/13

 This day started with a light ground frost but was primarily sunny and gently warmed up all day.  We started a little earlier as it was Jean's turn to go to the church and count money.  On her return we hung a number of wetting sheets up against the old wallpaper in the study.  Then we went for our walk while the water solution was soaking in.  It was a good day for birds near the lake's edge but the highlight was seeing a truly huge alligator (maybe the biggest I've seen "in the wild") basking on a mud bar.

On our return we started removing the wallpaper, which was exceedingly reluctant to leave the wall!  But little by little we were winning the battles.  Then came more sheets/soaking, lunch, and more removal.  While the next soaking was going on we took an outing to the hardware store for assorted supplies, so all was ready for more removal on our return.

After setting up another section for soaking we all three had an enjoyable Skype session/video chat with Marissa.  We moved some furniture, tidied a little, then did more removal.  We set up the last soaking and had our evening meal while it was working then did the final removal session of the day.  We are pleased to have completed the whole "window wall", twelve feet high at one end and eight feet at the other.  It was a really good productive day.