I'm never really lonely in my excentrifugal forz (Frank Zappa)

Not that kind of painting, silly!

Wie geht's?

Holidays are here which means a chance to catch up on those jobs that have been on our list for a few years:

Sanding and painting the outside window frames; cleaning the verandah roof; water-blasting and painting the verandah - that kind of thing.

Thanks to shifting record boxes, I have had a sore back for a large part of the year (MRI coming in January) so I am very strategic about these jobs - anything that involves bending over is a no no. No chainsawing up logs for me for a while.

Instead, because standing straight is much more preferable to sitting down or bending, the windows are at a perfect height for attacking and so is the verandah stuff.

If anything, I think the exercise is improving my back, as well as the battery of exercises from the osteo guy that I do every second day. Cautiously optimistic I am.

Anyway, must dash - the sun is shining and I'm burning daylight.

Love and peace - Woz

Baby baby baby you're out of time (Chris Farlowe)

You have to break some eggs to make an omlet. The after pic to follow!

Wie geht's?

Epic few days at Maple Grove! 

We initially wanted to fix up all the interior windows at Maple Grove and remove the carpet - remember. Well the carpet job went onto the back burner and we decided to concentrate on interior windows.

As we proceeded though, it became obvious we also needed to paint the walls. And that in turn meant doing the ceilings before we did the walls.

Sheesh.

Day 1 - remove all the furniture, wall paintings, and containers from the rooms - sanding meant we needed to empty out the rooms as much as possible; prep windows in kitchen/diner for staining - remove window catches; sand.

Day 2 - stain all windows (1 and a half coats)

Day 3 - finish second coat of some windows; prep walls and ceiling in the kitchen/diner/entrance way for painting - sanding/ washing walls and ceilings; first coat on the ceilings (Jacky worked a duty)

Day 4 - second coat on ceilings; first coat of walls part 1 - all those fiddly bits the roller won't get to (Jacky worked a duty)

Day 5 (today) - first coat of the walls part 2 - roller action; second coat part 1 and 2 (Jacky was home and able to do the lower level fiddly bits); wash up; return the rooms to normal.

Day 6 (tomorrow) - collapse in a heap!

Love and peace - Wozza