Ripped Out More Carpet and New Bed

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I had a busy few days. My sister went to our local fair and purchased a tempurpedic bed. We'd been planning on purchasing a new queen bed as our king bed was over fifteen years old and difficult to get a good nights sleep with. Since she purchased a new bed, she was willing to give us her old bed to use instead of us putting money we don't have into a new one. I ripped up our living room carpet with the help of my daughter last summer after accidentally popping a vein on ,my ankle which bled all over the hall and living room carpet along with a bit on the bedroom carpet too. Since that room is pretty loaded with several dressers and the king-sized bed we had, I wasn't looking forward to moving everything around to access all the carpet for the removal process. Thursday night my daughter helped me slide the king mattress out to the outlawn for pickup in September. I was able to move the springs myself since two, twin sized springs are used for the foundation. I then began to work on removing the carpet from underneath where our bed was and where the new one would go. The larger image on the left shows the bit of floor that was exposed first. It looks great. In the next image, top right it shows the area which was under the bed. I'm sure the black areas are from the padding and it should come off fairly easily once I mop it. The third image is our new bed with a bit of floor showing around it. I figure I'll continue working on taking off the remainder of carpet in the winter months when we're not working on windows, but I may get more done this week since it's raining today and again tomorrow, but first I need to do a bit of cleaning and organizing near my desk/computer area. Saturday am I helped my brother move boxes from my mom's basement into a trailer he'd brought for that purpose. We were going through things to separate for him getting money for a load to the metal scrap yard. He we also divided up things that could be reused at a resale shop, versus things headed for the dump. My family and I had already gone through the house several times in the past several years to make sure we didn't want anything else. While moving things, a pocket dictionary fell out which I decided to keep. It's a Polish/English dictionary. If I don't end up keeping it, I'll give it to one of my siblings. We also found a few old pictures of our kids we'd missed before. I'm working the night shift this week, and the customers we have are only available on Wed and Thurs this week, so maybe I'll be around a little bit for a bit once I do some cleaning. @LadyDuck it looks like my copyright shortcut is working again.