Surprise x2

Today as we were taking down the ceiling in the attic, we pulled down a piece of plywood that was covering an additional tray ceiling. Something was hiding in the tray. A pack of condoms. So Deona and I got down to work and finished taking down the ceiling. The condoms, we threw away. After a little while, we discovered the second surprise. Mortgage papers, and not our mortgage papers. They belong to the previous owner.
We lied, there is one more surprise. This is the bonus surprise for all the readers out there. As we were taking the plaster off of the wall in the family room, we were lucky enough to find the brick chimney covered by plaster. Now we have to find a way to plan our house around this architectural feature.
Here are a few of the pictures from our day's work.

Eating lunch in the sunshine!

The stairs. The more we take down, the more we realize how much we need to fix.

The attic

This is what it looked like at the end of the day.You can see the exposed brick chimney that is still half covered in pink plaster.