Saturday, January 15, 2022

Painting

 How are things out in your world?  Things have been foggy here.  Apparently it's a thing here in winter, clouds and fog are frequent.  We have not been doing much, cases are spiking something fierce, WA is close to declaring crisis standards of care, so we're staying in more than I would like to.  Well, there were those two trips to Home Depot....

We're painting inside.  I hate painting more than I hate just about anything (except buying shoes), but it must be done.  The people who lived here before were old and infirm.  One was physically infirm, the other had dementia.  We're not sure when they left for the home.  What is interesting is that the five gallon can of paint for the bulk of the house interior is dated May 15, 2021.  We know there was a disaster involving water that resulted in all flooring in the house being replaced, and we're pretty sure most of the basement was repainted in that time frame.  How then, did all of these little holes appear in the walls, why is the paint scratched off one side of the master bathroom door; when did this damage occur?  It's a mystery.  It's all cosmetic, but it makes us wonder.

Today we did prep work, masking, removing switch plates, filling said holes in the walls.  I have decided my new favorite brand of spackle is DAP.  It spreads easily and sands nicely.  This is a settling crack over the slider in the living room.  We watched a bunch of youtubes about digging it out, using tape and hot mud, floating the mud, sanding the mud and decided just to fill it.  It it doesn't hold we'll hire someone to fix it.  It's not that deep.

I filled it.  Jim sanded it.


This is the mantel over the gas fireplace.  The horizontal line is the seam between the wall and the top of the firebox.  We suspect the previous owners were out of the house when this was painted, because they spilled a large amount of paint here and did not bother to clean it up.  Fortunately Jim still has his sander, so we'll sand it down and paint it.  It'll be fine.


It looks like a bomb went off in the parlor/sitting room/ room with no specific purpose.  All of the painting supplies were dumped in there. 

Jim is currently playing excerpts from the super spreader event being held for the orange ectoplasm in Florence, AZ.  Wendy Rogers is calling for an audit of all 50 states, she wants to do door to door canvases of all 50 states, and determine who people voted for.  Go here to watch Ms. Rogers be crazy in public.  These people are delusional, they really are out of their minds.  So is one of AZ's senators (Sinema) who will not mess with the filibuster and does not care if voting rights go down in flames.  She is convinced she'll be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2024.  Delusional!  It feels good to live in a blue state, even if I'm in a red county.

Other than painting, there is not much happening here.  Jim made another batch of dinner rolls yesterday, he had another success.  We just about burned up the hand held mixer, if we're going to keep making bread, we're going to have to have some sort of stand mixer.  I'm trying to determine how much money I have to spend on this.

9 comments:

  1. I repainted about half the house before we moved it. so much easier when the house is empty. Now of course the paint is getting old and could use to be refreshed. But I'm about 15 years older now and less inclined. I guess unless the Democrats can pull a rabbit out of a hat with all the voter suppression bills we've seen our last fair election. And if that's the case this country will slide into single party authoritarianism.

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  2. I repainted most of the rooms in my home in 2020, and hired painters to finish the room with the vaulted ceilings...no way was I climbing a ladder that high.

    It's always interesting to see how many nicks and scratches that we don't normally see that show up when it is time to paint. Good luck with the process.

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  3. Ugh- like you, I hate to paint. I get as much paint on me as on the whatever is being painted.

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  4. Painting is HARD work! It hurts my neck and shoulders. I love looking at before and after photos. We're having fog here on the west side too. It makes me feel even more trapped. (that and spiking Covid numbers)

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  5. Painting and prep are hard work for we less than young! Sanding it the worst. The worst! Buy a stand mixer. Or, buy a bread machine. You can prep all the little stuff. Rolls. Pizza dough.

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  6. Are you painting the same color or different? You didn't say. I can't really tell from your photos what color it is - looks kind of orangey, but that may be the lighting. I am with you -- have done far too much painting over the years and hate it mightily, the prep, at least. Once you get to rolling, it's not too bad, but the prep and cutting in take forever. It is really satisfying to have it done, though!

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  7. Wendy Rogers is a maniac. I suspect even she doesn't believe a lot of the nonsense she spouts. Surely she's mostly playing to the crowd?

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