I got out the paint scrapper this week and to be honest it felt pretty good. Now either this is a good thing or a bad thing – I’m just not quite sure!
But what I do know is what I had on ‘2016 September To Do List’ was to paint the garage and some other white trim around the farm. Now did this get done in September? No it didn’t! But to my defense there was one heck of a lot of rain that we got that we normally don’t see in the fall so it made it pretty hard to paint anything this summer.
Well now that we’re hopefully done with most of the rain, I dug out the paint scrapper and started in on the garage. It’s one of those things that you are really excited to start and then when you can see a pretty good dent in the project you think to yourself – maybe I shouldn’t have started this. You just dread that it’s going to be more work and time that you’ve got and well .. it’s really too late now!
And there are hurdles along the way.
The first one that I had to overcome was some darn wasps! Now don’t you think that there are a lot of wasps this year? If for some crazy reason you don’t have them in your yard, please let me know. I can send you over about 10 or 500 of them! When I was scraping the walls I kept having to swat the wasps away until I just about had it. I’m sure I had some wasp spray in the house and that was going to take care of them. Well of course I couldn’t find any, but I did find some mold spray for walls. And when I was reading the label it said to keep out of reach of children, I knew it must not be too good and that I had a winner for my wasps! So out of the house I go with my mold spray feeling pretty smug and ready to kill anything that’s flying around me. And guess what? It actually worked! I found my first target and sprayed the mold spray on the wasp and at first it kind of wavered but when I gave him another shot – BAM! down he went. So I sprayed quite a bit of the spray on the next and finally when I didn’t see anything flying around anymore, and the one that was flying around the garage like a B2Bomber wasn’t in sight – down the nest came. 
My concern with this nest is that can you see how many empty holes there are? No WONDER there was so many wasps by the garage!
The only other challenge that I had tonight was that I was literally scraping the back and side of the garage by the light of our yard light and moon. It was pretty dark outside and with rain forecasted for tomorrow, I just wanted it done. Now I’m not sure how good of a job I did, but for now I’m sure it’s fine.
Now on to the next step – getting it painted!