This summer there has finally been a big push to paint the house. It needed doing when we bought the place nearly three years ago, and now it needs it even more.
I am married to a perfectionist - this means if there is an easy way to do something and a perfect way, we go to route B every time. The finish at the end is great but the process can drive me crazy! Its okay if it is his time he is using but I do get tired of my time being sucked into pointless extra work - or that is how I feel if I don't get enough sleep. Anyway, he did have a friend's son working with him before Christmas, and that kept him outside and making progress. When we came back from our trip to Auckland, B was off on his holidays. The fearless one seemed to suddenly lose all motivation.
So I am out there, scraping paint. Damn this summer is hot, and a lot of the paint is above my head so I will have fantastic shoulders by the time I get back to school.
Mind you the paint is coming off really quickly on the house, so we are very encouraged - there were visions of this job never getting done, but now it looks like a quarter of the house will be painted as well as the garage, and it is the hardest most complicated quarter with the bay window, cedar shake lined gables, porches and recessed window. After this side, the others look straightforward!
Posted by Toni at January 15, 2008 02:52 PM