Well, it's like this:  Either work on the house or work on the blog.  I don't seem to be able to manage both.  And now that the semester has started, I have to focus on my paying job.  I must say that we are making progress though.  The upstairs bath that had been torn up for several weeks is now finished.  The carpenter on the job was great and he provided some good advice.  He worked on historic buildings in Denver at one time and shared some of the "tricks of the trade" that are really going to save us time.  One of the things he told us was to use Zissner's BIN on the wallpaper instead of struggling with tearing it down.  BIN is a stainblocker, it has shellac in it, so it seals stains or, in our case, the wallpaper.  We tried it in the dining room downstairs.  Two coats of BIN over a couple of hours.  Next a coat of latex primer, followed eventually by two coats of Sherwin-Williams Duration paint.  I'll have to get back to you with the color and the number.  It turned out great!  We finally moved our dining room table and chairs and now have Sunday dinners at the Flagg House where we have more room than the Purcells house.
As an aside, I had left out my Christmas lights.  They consisted of two of those light up reindeer, a doe and a stage, from WalMart along with a rope light tree from Menards.  Since Christmas is long past now, I called them my "winter lights", since they're really not Christmas specific in their presence.  As  I said previously, the semester has started and that means the college kids are all back in force.  As I was walking around my yard today and came upon my humble winter enhancements, it appeared that since the college kids came back, the little stag decided to "hump" the little doe.  Yes, someone had taken the stag and put him in a compromising position with the doe.  I figured it was finally time to put my "winter lights away after all.  Luckily the weather was nice today which made it a pleasant chore.