March 23
Humberto and I took up the rest of the kitchen's sub floor - mid foundation wall is in poor condition - floor joints sitting on bricks and rocks - all loose.
Built up 3 pillars for the floor joints with brick and mortar. Next time we'll level.
Nanette meanwhile continued removing mortar from mud room wall in preparation of repointing bricks.

March 16
Put vapor barrier in crawl space. Added insulation to kitchen floor and installed sub floor in 1/3 kitchen.
Next time we'll take up rest of kitchen floor and level, sister, etc.

March 9
Humberto and I replaced bottom plate and found live termites. So we sprayed all areas, sistered numerous floor joists and leveled the joists or at least as level as can be in an old house.
Nanette spend the weekend at hospital with Mimi. All is fine. Mimi went in on Thursday with extremely high calcium levels and released on Sunday.

March 8
Humberto, Craig and I moved dresser upstairs. We then tore up about half of the kitchen floor - sub floor.

March 2
Bought backer board for master bath and drywall for kitchen near sink.
Opened the door and heard a rustling sound inside.  Not another destructive ground hog?  Went upstairs - more rustling.  Not scurrying.  Not like a ground hog.  What Now?   In the guest bathroom was a Barred Owl that's 20" high with a 5' wing span sitting on the towel rack.  Got my gloves and a stick and opened the windows just in case the owl wanted to leave on his own.  Tried to get it to perch on the stick.  No go!  Would not move.  Nanette called Animal Control, and Ed S. was on call, and called back.  Nanette explained the situation .  He got the address and asked if  "The mansion was by the bridge?"  Nanette responded "yes".  Ed S. stated his wife loves that house and Nanette told him to bring her too.  Ed S and his wife Monica arrived in about 15 minutes.  Owl had not moved at all.  Ed put on long leather gloves and grabbed the owl's talons.  He carried it outside and away it flew - beautiful!   Afterwards we found a warm "fresh" dead mouse.  Maybe it was the owl's snack??  Whoooooo knows!  Absolutely no idea how the owl got into the house.
Gave Ed and Monica a tour of the house.
Started to sleet so we left for home.  Didn't get much accomplished but exciting!