Scraping By - A Build Post
I think our neighbor Dave thinks I'm nuts (I *know* our neighbor John does). The other day, Dave saw me out in the early evening scraping the garage siding. "What are you doing?" he asked. "Needs painting" I responded. "And the best paint job is in the prep." "Who's going to paint it?" "I am. It's only the garage." Which remains my response. I admit that doing the whole house is probably too much for me anymore (and besides, watching our neighbors Dick and Martha get their whole place scraped, primed, and painted in the course of 3 days was pretty incredible.) But the garage I can handle, especially the siding, which is where I am starting. But even that takes a lot. I have spent much of the past week scraping down the siding, and I'm pleased to say I'm done with 3 sides of it, with only part of the south side to go. That's the area that takes the most work, like removing ornamentation and cleaning out the flowe