Half done

The professional painters arrived early this morning. They'll be doing the hard parts of the house. You know, where you need a really long ladder to reach those peaks. And they get to fight the raspberry canes and the rose bush with the humungous thorns.

Here's what Anne's accomplished.


We're still standing around admiring it.


Of course, we can't see those sides. And my turn will come. Apparently, in a moment of weakness, I offered to paint the deck rails.