Staples

Today was a travel day. That means for us it's a "not gonna get much done here" day. Our town boasts a Walmart and a Harvey's grocery store and a Fred's along with the typical Dollar stores. It does have a building supply store if you want to pay $2.50 for a .50 electrical outlet gang box.

Instead we headed to Vidalia. The town famous for the Vidalia onion. As a side note of information, there are five counties in Georgia that can grow the Vidalia onion. If they try to grow them in any other county they will not be the same onion. Something in the soil produces the famous onion.

But we didn't go for onions, we went for paneling at Lowe's for the den, the room with the stapled wallpaper! That's right we are becoming southern . . . With all the damage in the walls it is better to cover them up with something rather that plaster and paint or wallpaper. We plan to put up 8 ft paneling and drop the wood trim boarder. So we will paint the ceiling and the top part of the wall. Someday it would be nice to drop the ceiling as there is a tremendous heat loss with 12 foot ceilings.

Here are some earlier pictures and a few from tonight . . . 

The water marks on the ceiling is from the use of the upstairs shower off the bedroom. Like the shower downstairs the people continued to use it even though the shower walls had worn away from the shower floor. 

Pardon the mess.

This is after John removed about 300 staples.

. . . and then my phone died.