I delved a little bit further into the Kitchen floor situation. I took a circular saw along the length of the room parallel to the northernmost floor joist.

That gave me a bit of a view of what all is going on, structurally, with the house. I wasn't surprised to see the main center beam to be rotted and sagging.

It looks like I'll have to be jacking the house along the north wall to replace rotten sill plates and joists. That's going to take a bit of planning ;).

I found some wasps that weren't very happy to see me and my long pry-bar. I think they've been working on placing a wiretap on the phone line or something. It's hard to tell...but the nest is in this phone box.

They likely won't be the last to find my presence less-than-desirable. As a matter of fact, I'm hoping that the neighbors will put up with me ;). This garage-sale-sourced stereo may be my undoing in that respect. It seems the knob might go up to eleven, though I haven't confirmed that yet.