We’ve been busy bees around here. Too busy for me to spend ANY time on the computer, and really too busy for me to be doing my regular household chores. The dirty clothes and dirty floors and dust-covered furniture are starting to be very apparent 🙄
What have we been doing, you ask? Well, yesterday we planted the last of the pansies and also put out some mulch. We started prep work on some exterior painting. Tim is the painter in our house, thank goodness. I remember now that I don’t like painting. Actually, intensely dislike would be a much more descriptive term! 😀 Tim doesn’t like it either, but he’s better about sucking it up and getting the job done!!! 😀 We bought new locks and deadbolts for our outside doors and decided to paint the doors a different color. So, yesterday we did the cleaning, scraping and sanding prep-type work.
We got up right after sunup today (no walk, wah, I’m NOT a happy camper!) and started doing the primer coat. Tim is hoping it dries enough today to get the first coat of the new paint on. We’re having to leave the doors open, so it’s really weird to have all the outside, normally-locked doors wide open. Not to mention that Beau is rather baffled as to why the doors are left open, yet he’s not allowed to go in and out. We tried chaining him for a while this morning, and he was happy, as long as he could see us. When we were inside or at a different door, he was barking constantly, as if to say, where are you, where are you? He can’t run in and out because a) we’re painting the threshold over the door too and b) we don’t want his hair to get all in the paint!
I probably won’t be posting as much here this week. I’ll be posting some photos along over at my Project365 blog later on in the week. Hope everyone is having a great day and a great week!
That is hard work! We sucked it up last time and paid someone to paint our exterior. It was nice to watch them!
Good luck! I’d like to do some more painting in my house, but it always takes me months to choose a color!
I HATE painting – that’s why I hire somebody!!
I loved painting the inside of my house – but I’ll leave the outside to the professionals. What colors are you using? I’m anxious to see the finished pictures. Stay off the ladders!
I had paint brush in hand this last weekend too. I did the trim and closet doors in one of the rooms. Make sure you post some pics of the nice new color!
It’s difficult to explain things like that to a dog. Much like trying to reason with a toddler.
Tell us what colors you used! I can’t wait to see pictures.
I painted the exterior of our house nearly 3 years ago; at the time G was barely a year old. That was quite a job, let me tell you. I hope Tim enjoys it…it’s a great time of year for painting.
Well….painting is never fun. It’s nice though once its over….it will be worth it.
Where I used to live I had a downstairs apartment that my parents came to stay 3 months of a year. My mother asked me if it was ok to paint the bathroom- I said go for it. My dad who was a woodshop teacher and does things by the book had my mom scraping, sanding and washing the walls- she then discovered she didn’t like painting either! But just like Tim, she did what she had to do and finished the job- she has never painted again since.
I’ve never painted a wall in my life! I would love to someday, though. I keep telling Steve that we need to buy a starter house so that we can paint it and fix it up. lol
I Love painting, let me come over and help you LOL
That is such a lot of work but you will be so happy when it’s done!
I’m never allowed to paint in my house. My dh has to have it HIS way which is fine by me. I always get the job of gopher though. Get me the tape, pass me a wet paper towel, take the tape off, etc.
Good luck with the rest!
Wow, sounds like y’all HAVE been busy! I’m one of those strange people who likes to paint, but I don’t think I’d much enjoy doing exterior painting. Not as pretty. 😉
I don’t like to paint! But you can come up here and do ours, now that y’all are all practiced up and professionals now! I still need pansies too, for out front.
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