A Job Well Done

Back on May 22nd I posted about the memory garden we have on the south side of the garage, if you go back to this post about a good day, you will see a picture of the garden and the backdrop is my garage. It was so in need of paint. On June 26 I think, two very amazing friends gave up an entire day to help me. I'm not sure that Joan or Kari knew what they were getting into, I know I sure didn't!

Joan and I started around 9 a.m. scraping ... not my favorite job. Kari came over around noon after she finished work (I don't think she wanted to scrape ... ha ha ha). Then came the primer, really not my favorite part of the project. We especially didn't like the primer when we began painting and realized we still had to do two coats of paint to cover the light blue primer.



Think it needed to be painted?



Now, not that I'm tattling or anything, but I got called sloppy by a certain someone, and it wasn't Kari. Gosh we giggled over my lack of skills! And you know, that lack of skills, got me out of a lot of painting the last 30 some years ... but not that day.



Joan - Inspector General!

Three women scraped, primed, painted (mostly two coats), took off the gutters, scrubbed them, and put them back up ... yes with POWER TOOLS! It was hard work, very hard, it was exhilarating, empowering and bittersweet to finish a project that Doug and I had planned to do.

I don't have a picture of Kari, but again, not tattling, but I think she might have wore more paint than me that day ... and I wore a lot. Joan didn't wear any, well except for the little bit I dripped on her ... show-off!

And as the day closed, exhausted and feeling like we had conquered the world ... we three women grilled some chicken, opened a bottle of wine, and enjoyed a short visit!



Finishing up the gutters, yes, we three women hung the gutters back up and they are still up there!
Doesn't it look nice? I sure think so!

Thank you Joan Krull and Kari Wagner ... what a fun day ~ love you both!

Until soon,
vic