it is good to start the blog with a nice semi-family portrait. the back door with all it's new paint and happiness!
but the front porch is by far the best part of the whole project. i painted the window trim white and the concrete floor a nice rose. the doors are orange with blue trim though i don't actually like the orange. it's the same orange on the concrete steps. too orange! i wanted something more muted and burnt looking. ah well.
some good friends came over to paint with me on the day of april 10th. i am eternally grateful to the ones who came and really worked their asses off for our little house to become a nice place to look at! thank you thank you! we got a 3rd of the walls painted that day. the next week i painted on my own. i finished the last wall including the parts we thought too dangerous to paint around the electrical lines. i somehow did not become electrocuted and die.
it took me alone an entire week of painting to cover all three doors, screen doors, door trimmings, porch ceiling and flooring. i still even have a little bit of detail work to repaint. and the house will need a second coat! they assured me this paint goes on one coat guaranteed. ha! no way jose.
before i could paint the back/side doors i of course had to tear down the horrid awnings that covered them. they each came down fairly easily in one piece. horrid horrid things they are. now the walls are painted however they do need to be caulked in the huge holes that are left where the bolts lived. i don't even want to mention how much insect life/death was living in the awning crevices. DEE-sgusting.
one of the sad reasons it took me so long to finish the exterior work... is that there was a bee. an enormous furry bee. it was the strangest thing. if i was outside it was zooming around my head and chasing me around the yard. not much work can get done in this manner. it is very sad. i am not even kidding. this bee had such a vendetta for me that i couldn't even go outside during certain hours of sunshine and beautiful weather because if i stepped outside the bee would suddenly be there to terrify the hell out of me. i have no idea why it wanted to be around me and me alone. and it wouldn't be there by the door when i was merely standing inside the door looking around to see if was there... it would suddenly appear at my head shortly after i emerged. i tried to kill it with wasp spray just to get some work done in peace. it wouldn't die! it was so much faster than the wasps it never could be hit long enough.
but i got him in the end. only once i had finished painting and he sneaked into the front porch did i get to spray the living daylights out of him. i should have taken a picture. it's cruel perhaps but i am so convinced this bee had it out for me. it was HUGE. as big as my thumb. crazy scary hateful creature.
i would like to state for the record that max hasn't lifted a finger to help me.
even though i built him a little fenced in area. which he hates.
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