Yeah, I know summer officially starts on June 21…but we’re here in Texas and we know summer when we see it…hot, sunny, chance of thunder-storms…sweat pouring out of my salt-stained shirt…AC running overtime…temperatures at NIGHT not falling below 85 degrees… Yeah, it’s summer. Maintenance stuff more than rennovating stuff this weekend…I got all the tree [...]
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To sleep, perchance to dream…
We (kind of, sort of) took this weekend off. Several things conspired. Lots of work at…well…work, not enough sleep (due to same), and also we got the wife’s car back from the body shop. All the extra running around simply added up to the fact that we weren’t ready to go Friday night or Saturday [...]
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Paint–fail.
Didn’t get all that much done this weekend…we chose to relax most of Saturday. Ate nice meals. Drove around and looked at property. Talked. Solved all the worlds problems at one time or another. Sunday, we trimmed some trees and did the final prep on the sunroom for paint. “Trimmed some trees” is actually harder [...]
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Oy! What’s with the house?
Some of you may be wondering…why no recent posts strictly about the house? Well…remember the one about scraping paint? Yeah, we’re still there. We’ve done some other things…the standard yardwork, cleanup (this weekend was our town’s big cleanup week, which meant we could take some things to the city yard for disposal), and I’m certian [...]
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Scrape….
Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. Scrape. [...]
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Full power restored….
*schhniiick* “Full power restored.” “Excellent! More than a match for poor Enter….” Oh…wait…that’s a different movie. Ah well. This weekend was a change. A real change. I’m not quite sure what to make of it yet. See, for the first time in like 4 months…it wasn’t raining (or 10 degrees!) all weekend. Wow! Ground that [...]
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Scraaaaaaaaapppppe!
No pictures this week. Just cleaning, and scraping paint. We had nice weather, but too short a weather window (rain starting Sunday night) to get to work on the roof or the exterior door painting. Instead, we concentrated on scraping the paint off the billion or so linear feet of beadboard in the sunroom. We [...]
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If I pretend a little, I’m done painting the dormer!
Well, here’s a pic after this weekend’s work: If you pretend the sill has been painted the same color as the trim against the roof line (very dark slate blue), and that I’ve given that same piece of trim up against the roof a second coat…then I finished the painting this weekend. Finished! Okay, yeah, [...]
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Some Paint Applied!
Some paint applied! The two major colors are on the dormer, under the eave and the scales. Anything up there that is white is still in primer, I ran out of time that day. Two colors left…a high white for some of the trim, and the darker color for the sills/sashes and some other highlights. [...]
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Scaling scales…
Just a quick update… Spent a lot of time on the roof today…in the 30-40 mph north winds, stripping paint off the fishscales. Some of it was practically stripping itself. Finished….this is a couple hours work…in biting cold, heavy wind. Brrrr. Also, the first set of sashes is primed (second coat) and ready for some [...]
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Paint Can of Worms…
Edit: Worked on some damage this weekend…some new information gleaned whilst working, and some input from the former owner added below… Gad…what a can of worms this opens up. It’s a seemingly simple question. What to prime my house with? It’s cypress, ya see, except where it’s cedar, and probably sat with very little paint [...]
