Painting progress and cookie making

I wanted to show you my painting progress. it has taken me 3 days to get this far. but it is hot and i only work in the early morning and early evening....in the shade.

The lowly cellar is getting transformed into a thing of beauty...well, the outside of it anyway. the inside is hopeless.

The outside of the window frame is painted....still gotta go inside and do that part. and, yeah, i know it is messy but this is old, crude construction from many years ago so i am doing the best i can. but check out that cool rock wall...it is getting a facelift also and is now a pretty cream to match the house.

And the door is done..inside and out...and the door frame.

And i have done some of the walls. the only part left is right around the door. that wall is tricky. it is made of stone and there are fissures in the stones that are tricky to get the paint in.

And of course i had help....well, supervision.

Miss Suzy has her own patio chair. LOL   that chair has a story. it WAS a very nice recliner that i found in a thrift store. we decided to move it from the city home to the country home and threw it in the back of the truck and off we went. that chair weighs a TON. it was early sunday morning and we were doing about 60 down the freeway. all of a sudden, the chair goes flying out of the back of the pickup. of course, we did not tie it down....it was heavy. well, lesson learned, 60mph down the freeway will pick up chairs out of the back of the truck. so, we take the next exit and go back and haul our chair out of the road and throw  (drag) it back into the truck. tie it down this time...(yeah, yeah, we learn slow). by now it has a rip or 2 and the leg rest is not closing back up all the way. we get it to the country and jim takes a look at it and decides it is not to be helped.....the crash to the highway worked it over good. so, it sat on the back porch for a couple years and usually the dogs sat in it. this last summer dh wanted to burn it but i talked him into just moving it to the area by the cellar...it is under cover and won't get rained on. so that is Suzy's favorite place to rest now. she even has a quilt to cover the bad spots. haha

I also have gotten 2 windows of the studio partly finished. i have caulked them and put the first coat of primer on them. and spraying wasps along the way. i don't know what happened to my pic of the painted windows, lost somewhere in cyberland. but here they are naked.

Tonight i might get up there and get the first coat of paint on them. it is pretty scary up there....picture a 10 foot ladder on top of the scaffolding and me up 4 steps on the ladder. i tie the ladder to the scaffolding...i'm a sissy.

This morning i gave up the cellar painting party in favor of making cookies for jim's open house tomorrow for his music recording studio. i made cowboy cookies...they have chocolate chips, nuts, and oatmeal. 2 batches made 7 dozen. and a batch of blarney stones...they have peanuts and raisins. jim is hoping they all don't get eaten so he can bring the rest back up to the house and munch them hisself. can't say i blame him.

Try and stay cool...go make yourself some cookies. i gotta go play with my new toys.

Later.

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.

Stay cool