A painting I will go....

I've been painting....not too much quilting.

I've decided June will be home improvement month at the bruner spread. we had the house painted a few months back and i'm trying to catch up with things. the cellar door and window are now painted to match the house doors and windows. and i am in the middle of repainting the concrete block foundation under the house. i painted it a gray a couple years ago. i got my gray from mixing together all the bits of paint i had...too cheap to buy new paint. but, hey, it worked out ok. but since the house is now a cream color....i am repainting the concrete foundation to match the house. it will look all clean and nice.

And on the studio side of the road, i have 6 HUGE windows to paint on the south side...along with 6 smaller windows on top of those. i have the scaffolding set up and a 10 foot ladder on top of that. i am sort of a sissy, so i tie the ladder to the scaffolding when i go up there. that puts me about 10 or 12 feet off the ground....but it looks like more than that. along with the rope and a little prayer i suppose i am safe enough....if the wasps don't bombard me.

These windows at the studio probably haven't been painted in about 50 years. there is no more paint on them at all. i had caulked them a few years back but am now redoing the caulk and then a coat of primer and 2 coats of chocolate brown paint. but before i can start all that, i have to deploy the wasps that love to live under the eaves. they were coming out from behind the soffit, so i sprayed that and as they came back i sprayed each one if they stayed still long enough. i think i killed at least 6 of them yesterday. there are 2 windows in a set....so each set of windows take a can of wasp spray and 2 tubes of caulk. and i have to wait until at least 4pm to get up there...when the shade gets there.

Tomorrow is cookie day. Jim and his buddy have built a music recording studio in the barn and saturday is their open house. so i volunteered to make cookies for them. so i will start cookie production in the morning before it gets too awfully hot. and UPS is supposed to bring more goodies from Quiltazoid for me tomorrow, so i will want to get back over to the studio and play. i have a quilt on the frame today that has to be finished and off so i can play tomorrow. so, i guess i better get to finishing the last 2 rows at that quilt.

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