Finished!
At 1:30 p.m. I was throwing my two paint brushes into the garbage . . . 2020 paint fest on Stauffer Avenue is finished. I had washed my white paint brush and my black paint brush to the point that the bristles looked a bit like stubs. Those brushes didn’t owe me anything. I had bought new brushes when we bought the paint. As I had looked around, there were several brushes that were on hooks in the garage and served the project very well.
Yesterday when we were planning our tomorrow . . . our Tuesday, it pretty much was the trim on the peak of the garage roof and that was all. Last night after supper, I looked out the bathroom window and I saw the art work that was on the wall of the potting shed above the Koi pond, now laying on the patio. I didn’t say anything. Soon the long garden hose was strung along side of the house, onto the patio, around the patio porch and the north wall of the potting shed was getting washed off. I knew plans had just changed for our Tuesday.
I will say that this will be the last time that I paint the trim on the garage gable. Our large ladder is very sturdy as it sits on the concrete. I had planned ahead and had been painting out of the quart black paint on everything that needed to be painted to lighten the paint can and not have paint wanting to spill out of it as I climbed the ladder. Dennis was right there holding the ladder that was already sturdy. The painting of the trim was harder on Dennis than it was on me. He said my life as his adult day care person flashed before his eyes. Special! We were out early and the sun had not yet gotten high enough to shine in my eyes for the project. Sweet!
With a little break we headed to the Koi pond. Dennis was right in regard to getting it painted now. When the Koi come out of the pond in the fall, it is when the temps are cold enough that he can get them netted and into the horse tank in the garage. In the spring when the Koi come out into the pond the spring temps are still cold. The planks were sturdy. What did throw me a curve was bending done to load paint on the brush with moving water catching my eye under my feet as the Koi were swimming laps. Blink, blink stay focused.
All is done. It is the first time that everything that needs paint has been done at one time. There is about two inches of white paint left in the can out of the four gallons. I thanked our Lord for a great safe project. Dennis and I work like one in our projects. We may not have the greatest lasting power, but the important thing is we get up, show up and keep the time that we work at things so it is reasonable and doesn’t crush our spirit to do it all over again the next day.
For supper we are going to enjoy a loaf pan of Carrie’s meat loaf that needs to be baked for an hour. Her frozen meals that her and Megan brought from their kitchen in Eden Prairie have really been appreciated when the two of us might not have had the energy to spoon out a dollop of peanut butter.
I love life and I enjoy taking it on full force. May the force be with us all!