Last year I spent the summer painting most of the interior of our house. This year we had to do the outside. It hadn’t been done for several years, and it was starting to show pretty badly. Of course, exterior painting often grows into other projects, and this has proven to be the case for us this summer.
Dan has been doing much of the prepping (with “help” from the kids!) Today we starting staining the wood siding and our porch that are on the front of the house. What a job!
Kara and Luke were so cute this morning. They wanted to help, so we needed to find something that they could do to feel useful. We set them to work doing some sanding on the porch, and they worked….and worked….and WORKED! What busy little bees! I thought they were so cute with their safety glasses and sand paper, as you can see from the picture.
We’ve had a lot of rain this spring/summer that has hastened some expensive projects that really have needed to be done anyway. We have pretty heavy water damage on a couple of our front windows and both of our garage doors, so we are in the process of getting those all replaced. That’s not a cheap thing to do, but, like I said, these are things that really needed to be done anyway, so it was time to stop putting off the inevitable. In a few weeks the staining and painting will be finished, and we’ll have the new garage doors and windows. I am sure it will look a lot better. This type of maintenance is simply a necessity to keep up a home, and we are thankful that God has given us the means to do it.
