after the deluge

I went home for Friday, and it rained and rained and rained into the parlour. So I had painted this wall two years ago, then last year water poured through the far window. So the flashing was repaired last year for both windows and some shingles were replaced. I painted the wall again: one coat primer and two coats of paint. Then yesterday the water poured into the room again. This means that the shingles need to be replaced. But this is not the worse wall. The south side is a much larger wall and it needs to be replaced too. But flashing was replaced there last year. So I painted it the year before and then again last year.

This morning I finished the interior painting as much as I can now. The carpenter is coming next week so we can go over finishing the interior - but now I think the treasury will be spent on the exterior, and the interior will wait and wait and wait.

So now the decision - shingles again, or throw in the towel and have siding put up. I am thinking of throwing in that towel. I have better things to do with my time than to be constantly painting houses.

There is always sunshine after the rain.

more painting

I went home to do a bit a painting before leaving very early this morning to get back to work. So in this minuscule ell shaped hallway there are five portals, three of which have doors. This makes for a lot of picky painting. It's finished except for the touch ups, and then I'll get onto painting the floor, carefully, because to do so will block the way to the facilities. This will require some thought. But I am ahead of the game, I know my type.  This is a excellent website. Wait a bit before you type in your name - any name will do. http://www.pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/

gutters

The gutters, or are they eaves troughs, are now up, and so bit by bit the house progresses. Whilst I was home I painted more walls, "mother of pearl" and doors, "coffee bean", but there are more coats to put on. And so it goes .. and now I have lost 21 inches, which is a wardrobe disaster.

painting ceilings

My rule-of-thumb is to never leave a ceiling white. Yesterday and this morning on my "day" at home on the Bay I finished the plastering and sanding of this little hallway with three doors and two other entrance ways. Then I used up an older can of "Hurricane" on the ceiling. Here are the paint samples while I figure paint colours for the walls, doors, door frames and floor. It's no fun painting if you can't paint in colour.

bathroom door

This is my home renovation report: I painted the ceiling and walls of the studio. Now the painting has been put on hold until the window and door have been framed in and the baseboard installed. And there is now a bathroom door. This is an improvement. The picture shows the limitations of my little camera, The door is really rectangular and not wider at the top than at the bottom.

And now Obama is in the news:

Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

green ceiling

"Pickling Spice" is its name. How I would love to have the job of naming paints! The rain is pouring down. The wheelbarrow is standing forlornly in the daylily field. Today it is not enticing me. Tomorrow I return to New Brunswick, so it will wait there for a week and a half. But the studio ceiling has its first coat of green. So there is accomplishment. As upstairs is a half story the ceiling reaches down to a three foot wall, so it is not just above, but beside me, too. The second coat will have to wait. Now to cup of tea and a good book. I'm reading Timothy Findley's "Not Wanted on the Voyage".

paint job

A lovely warm sunny day with my garden waiting for me to come and play, but I was indoors sanding the last coat of plaster and putting up the primer. Then I zipped over the mountain and into town to buy the ceiling paint (green).Finally I had an hour to play in the garden. When I am in the daylily field Miss Johnston, the cat, always comes to accompany me. She's my garden gnome. Finally at the end of a long day I came out to play.