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One of the other positive outcomes of my trip to Utah was having TB tell me, without prompting, that Brian P. had tried for weeks to get the many layers of old paint off of his front porch and eventually failed, gave up, and put a whole ‘nother coat of paint on top of it. [...]

Posting about Half Dome and Boundary Waters was a lot more engaging. Try it yourself, prove me wrong. (Or right.) Tape ball, before and after: Weight: 0. Weight: equivalent to three rolls of 1 1/2-inch masking tape, three spiders, and a gnat carcass. I kind of like sticking random bug bodies into tape balls. Or at [...]

More like “bad decisions” than “misfortune”. Or maybe more like “difficult, non-binding decisions that could not be made without investment of time and money”. Something like that. It’s taken too long to paint the three rooms I’m painting and part of the deal has been color decisions. Before I moved out here, I was thinking [...]

Painting has taken a long time. It will continue to take a long time. I’d never done ceilings before. It turns out a lot of paint falls onto your face, some gets in your eyes, and especially when you’re trying to do it in low light, it’s pretty hard to see what areas you’ve coated [...]

I’m becoming increasingly incredulous that anything I have posted or will post regarding the renovations of my house has been, will be, or will have been interesting. With that in mind, I applied primer to my walls and ceiling prior to painting. That’s right: primer. Kilz is the brand name of the primer. It seals [...]

Painting preparation, the great American pastime. Because the cat urine stench alone wasn’t enough to peel paint off the walls. Filling holes. It’s a metal thing nailed into the drywall that kept the tiles in. Hadn’t realized my baseboards were this ugly. The dropping of cloth is complete. Lacks drama. Not edgy enough. It’s 7:12 [...]