Thursday, August 21, 2008

Sunshine and Surprises

The first surprise of the day was the sunshine! And it was a wonderful surprise! It is much nicer to work in the sun without fear of rain. Although it did rain a tiny bit around lunchtime.


how do you paint back in there?

you just squeeze in and do it

But not all surprises are good surprises. When you are a homeowner, especially of an older house, you never know what will happen next. And when you start taking down trim boards that the contractor that was working on your house before you bought it was in a REAL hurry to get back on the wall, you know it might be bad. And it was...


So we didn't get as much painting done as we had hoped, but we did do some prep work for some major work that will have to get done Labor Day weekend when we finish the painting the trim.
it made for a great father/son project


But it is looking good!

4 comments:

Jim and Marilyn said...

The new color is awesome! What a family project...it is good that you have all that masculine help!

Paula Vince said...

You must be in a hurry to finish because cooler autumn weather is so close. Over here it's just beginning to get lighter in the mornings and a bit sunnier during the days.
Some of those jobs look big.
Blessings,
Paula

Emily said...

I really like the color! It will be fun to see the "after" pictures! And the Metro Paint seems really neat! I don't think we can get it around here though, can we? You are so on the ball with these projects...if only I could get the dishes done and the carpet vacuumed!

Marcoe said...

I enjoyed looking at your blog. We have one too .. http://grimmba.blogspot.com/
We try to put tidbits on it - A few of my kids decided we need to start one.
-->Anne