March 27, 2017

Busy day!  We worked at Casa all day, demolishing more walls.  John had the idea to leave the logs up part way for a fence around the cement area, but we found the bottoms of the logs were rotting out, so gave up on that idea.  He cut the porch roof and wall where we are going to tear part off and tomorrow we'll try hooking up a chain and pulling it.  Hoping it will pull the shed off the building.  John took out the bolts holding the porch roof to the building. 

I found a piece of cardboard in the bathroom wall today that has a monkey on it.  It was a box for Monkey Grip tire patches.  I googled it hoping to find when they were made and as far as I can tell they started making them in the 1920's.  From clues in the picture of the piece I found I think this box was from sometime in the 1950's.  That would put the construction on this addition a lot later than we were guessing.  They started making the patches in the 1920's but didn't make tube tires until in the 50's and the picture says they are for tires and tubes.  I was hoping to find info on when they used the monkey in the picture I have, they apparently changed monkey's over the years, but I can't find any info on that. 

I have found dates on the pieces of paper they used to seal up the cracks in the porch in the 1960's and today we looked at the strips closer and found a piece from a catalog cover saying Mor-Valu family gift album.  I looked that up and found a picture of the whole cover!  It says it's from the 1970s. 

We worked an evening shift at Casa.  We went back after supper and tore down the porch.  Our set up worked so slick!  John cut a hole in the roof over the window, threaded a chain through the hole and window and we hooked it up to a tree with a come along in the middle and ratcheted it until it fell!  I found 33 cents, a ring and some game cards and pieces along the edge of some concrete!  I picture the money fairy going around the house and yard sprinkling money everywhere.  I keep finding coins in the yard, in cracks in the house, not a lot, I'm not sure how much I've found, but I keep finding them!  I don't think our house and yard have any, so I'm not sure how they got sprinkled around at Ray's.