1952
- Remodeling the House
The house that we
bought had an indoor bathroom and four rooms; living room, kitchen, and two
bedrooms. We had three children so it was really too small.
We decided that we
would dig a basement under the house, add an attic, and more bedrooms. The
first thing that Harold did was to dig the basement. He started out working
like he had in the mines; on his knees with a pick and shovel. After awhile he
hired an old man that everyone called “The Human Mole”, because he liked to dig
and he was fast at it.
That old man, Mr.
Smallwood, that was his name, wouldn’t sleep inside the house; he slept in what
was to be the basement on a pallet that he made up himself. Mr. Smallwood said
that way if he woke up with a notion to dig he could just start in digging and
he wouldn’t wake anyone up. It didn’t take him long to get that basement ready
for Harold to pour the walls.
Harold had started
inside the house. He made an attic room and while he was working on that he
fell through the ceiling. He had straddled one of the 2 X 4’s when he fell.
There didn’t seem to be anyway he could get loose himself and we couldn’t get
him loose from the bottom because we weren’t strong enough. It was a good thing
that my brother in law, Herbert Hannah, came in, saw what had happened and got
him out.
By the time we got
through with the remodeling job we had four bedrooms, a sewing room, an attic
room and a full size basement in it with a summer kitchen for canning. It took
awhile but it really was nice by the time Harold got through with it.
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