After dealing with the basement, we turned our eyes to the part of the job we were best suited for: demolition. This required only gloves, a mask, a high tolerance for filth and a heavy object to swing. All tools we had on hand. Sue was surprisingly good at this — you’d think a woman who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis might shy away heavy dirty work like this, but no, she jumped right in, in fact only a few days after we signed the papers.