[2Jedismom]

The babies are going to be some big chickens, I think! They are half the size of the older chickens already and have more feathers than they did at this age! I can see putting them out in the coop in a week, maybe two...inside their cooplet, for added protection...

[ksen]

Morning everyone....*yawn!*

Well, I got the old tiles, drywall, and insulation off of the back wall in the tub. It was very stinky.

I took the HH advice and sprayed all the moldy bits of the studs with bleach. By morning they were all white, well whitish-yellow.

Oh, when I took the insulation out I had a suspicion that I was going to find a surprise so I had my ant sprayer handy. I took out one of the strips of insulation and lo and behold a bunch of carpenter ants had made a nest in the insulation, what cheek! So I doused 'em good with the ant poison. By morning there must have been a few hundred little curled up ant bodies in the tub.

Anyway, last night I put in new insulation, got the new piece of drywall, actually it was cementboard, screwed onto the wall, and I taped and mudded the cementboard. Tonight I'll sand it down and apply another coat.

We bought some tile board to glue in place instead of going through the hassle of retiling.