Floored

Boy what a job.  We refinished our living room & dining room floors.  This means, of course, removing everything from these rooms, right down to the baseboards.  Like most people,I didn't realize just how much stuff  we had in those rooms, until I had to find another place to put it.  Six enormous book shelves crammed full of books and school stuff, a dining room table for eight, massive armoire, couch, chair, and more odds and ends of furniture and ordinary junk.  All this stuff had to be stacked and stuffed into the other rooms of our house.  Here we have the rooms devoid of furnishings just after we sanded the floors.  The kids and dog are playing some kind of slamball-bowling-roller-derby type of game on those wide open floors.  
Ahhhhh, finished.  After a much longer drying time than was given on the label of the stain can.  These rooms are in the dead middle of the house, right inside the front door.  It was very inconvenient to work around.  To get to the kitchen, you had to go out the lower back door, around the house, and in through the garage.  Try doing that 80 times a day for five days.  I give it about 12 hours before some child or animal carves an irreparable scratch, or scribbles with sharpie, or starts a campfire in the middle of the floor.