I know that the weather is supposed to turn so I really wanted to get some more painting done before it gets too cold. If I remember right your’e not supposed to paint outside if it’s less than 40 degrees at night. OK, so it’s supposed to get down to 38 tonight – but seriously who’s calibrating the thermometers?
So I beat it home after work and put on my painting clothes. I need to get this job done and be heading to town for a meeting that started at 6:30. Now even I knew that this was going to be close!
Well I literally ran to get the ladder and set up by the shed. I was a little worried because Daryl piled some old wood on the same side, but I only had to move a couple of boards to get my ladder situated so that wasn’t a problem.
Next to mix up the paint. This job shouldn’t be rushed, but it seriously played on my patience tonight!
OK, so I had my paintbrush, my ice cream pail full of paint, and my paint scraper. I was ready!
I started on the east side of the shed and when all the cows came over I wasn’t too worried. I mean quite some time ago I was painting very high on the barn on the top of the extension ladder and the bull at that time (who never liked me for some reason) came over and started to push on the ladder. Luckily I was able to grab on the barn and keep myself from falling over. But Ed? Ed our bull wouldn’t do that. Well anyway I was sure hoping he wouldn’t anyway not tonight. I was on a schedule!
I did find out though that Ed doesn’t like it when I would use the brush side of the paint scraper. See I would close my eyes and then go above my head and go back and forth to get all the paint chips off. I was scraping as I would go just to save time. Now how did I know that Ed didn’t like this noise? Well he would go to the dirt pile in the cow yard and then start rubbing his head back and forth on the dirt and then start kicking up dirt as if he wanted to fight.
Yup, I got the hint. I would only use the scraper part from now on.
I didn’t want to take any breaks and when I’d run (yes literally run) to the barn for more paint I would check on the time. It was so close and I knew it was probably my last chance to get this painting done for the year. And luck was on my side because I was able to get everything done that I wanted with about 10 minutes to spare before my meeting in town. SCORE!!
I ran to the house and quick grabbed a hand brush to get the visible paint off my hands and face, threw on a sweatshirt and some sweatpants and then off to the meeting I went.
When I got home after the meeting, I took a long hot bath with a couple of bath fizzys to help get the paint off. Oh yea, while I was also soaking in the tub I also had a beer to celebrate a job well done 🙂
Here are the photos from tonight. I had some trouble with Scarlet thinking that the she needed to be in the picture. Dang kids!
Before picture of the cattle shed
The after picture of the cattle shed …with trying not to let Scarlet overtake the picture