Day 3 & 4

Bob spent yesterday ripping up the carpet in the master bedroom in preparation for the wide plank pine from the living room to be re-laid there. Nasty work - lots of staple and nail pulling. Then he finished taking up the last part of the front stair carpet to reveal the oak flooring.
He thought he was done and had asked me to clean up and vacuum in the master bedroom - he makes the mess and I clean it up seems to be a theme that's developing - so I was vacuuming when I noticed that the top step/edge of the subfloor on the rear stair into the master bedroom was oak. So I called Bob over (at this point he did not wish ever to see another carpet that needed to be pulled up) and said "Look at this. Why would there be oak here unless the stair was also oak?" At that point he started wailing "No, no, why me?" in true Nancy Kerrigan fashion and timidly peeled up the carpet in one of the corner treads to reveal an absolutely mint red oak stair tread.
It looks like it was never even exposed to the light - looks freshly laid. So now we have 2 stairs to refinish. Along with 1 living room, 3 bedrooms and one upstairs hallway. Plus re-lay the pine in the master bedroom and if any is left over then lay that in the dining room.
We didn't expect to find an oak floor under the living room pine floor and we definitely didn't expect to find oak treads on the rear stair as we specifically asked about where there was hardwood floor. So that was a nice bonus. I called the floor guy to warn him but also say that we did a bunch of his prep work taking up the plank and carpet. He is starting on the floors tomorrow - it's very exciting - can't wait 'til they are done. Good job Bob!