Jethro's World

Weekend Update

Well, we officially started painting the rest of our house.

Thursday and Friday evenings were spent prepping and taping off, and Saturday was a painting day. Steph helped roll on the paint in the well ventilated areas, but had to quit when she got to the entryway. We made it about halfway around the front of the house by dusk... but we still need to go back and touch up quite a few spots. I think we can get by with just touching up rather than doing a full second coat.

I continued painting Sunday afternoon, but it soon became apparent that we needed more paint. Steph loaded Noah into her car and tried to set off for the hardware store... but the car wouldn't start. It would just turn over slowly and then make this awful clicking noise. My first instinct was battery, but why was it making those clicking noises. I grabbed my jumper cables hooked them up to my pickup, and was able to get the car started; so at least we know it is the battery. Her car needs new tires anyway, so I guess we will just get a battery at the same time...

With the Passat out of commission, Steph and Noah took my pickup to the hardware store, and returned with three gallons of 'Choco-Sweet' colored paint - the same color we had purchased before. I finally broke into the new paint around 6:00, and quickly discovered that it was most definitely not the same color... argh! I'm hoping the hardware store will be able to remix the new paint to match the old paint - I even have the original stir-stick for them to reference if they need.

Once I get things squared away here at work, it's off to the tire store and the hardware store for me... I just wonder what else can go wrong!

Here's Noah!

Hi, it's me Noah again. Just checking in to let y'all know that Papa did a new entry over at Noah's Playhouse. I also wanted everyone to see the nice body art that I did when I was in my room "resting"...

Painting the House

Most of Labor Day Weekend 2005 was spent painting the south side of the house (that would be the side with the new siding). It was slow going at first, as I had to climb extension ladders to scrub and then paint the gable end rafter (barge rafter or rake board). The new siding was still very clean, with just a few spots that needed buffing.

At one point Saturday afternoon, the neighbor boy asked, "Why are you painting your house purple?". Purple??? It's supposed to be mocha/gray! I stepped back to assess the situation and ascertained that next to the primer on the siding, the new paint did indeed have a purple-ish hue to it. But if you blocked out the primer, it looked gray... pretty strange. Well, all the primer is now gone, and it is taking on the mocha/gray tone that we were looking for...

The freshly painted siding and trim after the first coat.

I was hoping to finish the second coat today, but we must have had less cloud cover than on the previous days. By the time I got down to about the 8 ft. level (about 1:30), that side of the house was so warm that I could only go about two feet at a time without the paint drying up while I brushed it... not good. So, I put Noah's new bed together instead.