Yeah, I know it really started nearly a month ago. Hell, everything I wanted to do on the interior is already done. But it became official today. 🙂
This’ll be a far less intense season than last year. There’s some construction but it shouldn’t be any big deal. This time last year I seriously questioned whether I hadn’t taken on more than I could do, even with the help I’d been promised. I’m no builder, and I’ve got to tell you it’s scary when you’re utterly committed to a thing like that, no excuses, no way out but through.
But this year there’s nothing like that. It’s mostly just painting. I dislike painting on principle, but have found that I don’t mind it nearly so much when I’m doing it on my own cabin, which I actually built. It’s not just drudgery, it’s drudgery love.
Yeah, there’s some other stuff. New front porch, cement rear steps. A new run of conduit from the powershed – that’s what that coil of orange stuff is for. Some window and door trim. But nothing scary at all, mostly just painting. That’s why today I borrowed Neighbor S’s scaffold, and I figure doing so officially kicks off the building season. The very first thing I want to complete is gutters on the addition edge, because that drip edge makes getting to and from that whole part of the yard a muddy mess when it rains. But first all that new woodwork needs the couple of coats of paint that I ran out of time and money to give it last year, when I just had to get busy on the interior.
I was going to paint the gutters this afternoon but the wind came up too high to want to be hanging on to gutters with one hand and painting them with the other. I know Uncle Murphy far too well to ever think he’d let me get away with that. So I settled for cleaning up from this month’s interior trim work and setting up the scaffold. Also it turned into bread day – this is the second time in three I’ve lost half my second loaf to mold, it’s clearly time to start storing that second loaf in Ian’s fridge. Tomorrow I have to go to town for the Monday water run, but the whole day is supposed to be nice so after that I paint.
Well, at least things are slowing down a bit at your end. I don’t blame you for not wanting to work up top in the wind. Wind plus gravity is never a happy mix.
And you won’t use mold inhibitors in yout bread. Oh well. Seriously, one common cause of mold is letting the baked bread come into contact with raw flour. We used to see cases of that when bakers used flour sacks to transport the bread.