Saturday

It's hard to tell from the photo exactly how bad our deck looks. The green...by the way, who paints their deck? And who paints their deck to match their house? Puke...Anyway, The green paint on our deck is worn away in spots and flaking off in others. We would love to spend time out there without coming in with a shoe full of green splinters so we decided it was time to switch to a more normal looking deck. I rented the nifty drum sander for the weekend, hoping that the already flaking paint would come off really easily. That didn't turn out to be the case.

I came home from a blissful yoga session to find T and the drum sander working hard. I finished my iced coffee and jumped into the fray. We had been at it for an hour or so and realized that we weren't making a lot of progress. Since the deck boards aren't completely flat, the paint was wedged in the crevices. Our neighbor came over with a solution.

He lent us his power washer. The washer was more effective and much faster. It didn't take everything off but it came close. We may still have to do some spot sanding to get it all off. For being so flaky, that stuff was a bear to get off.

After we were sufficiently tired and covered with water and paint chips, we headed inside. I put a coat of paint on the top of our kitchen hutch and T put our guest bedframe together. T's mom gave it to us and it's been in our basement, patiently awaiting the day it would graduate to the second floor. This is our Blue Room, the one room upstairs that has not been painted.


A frosty end to a very busy Saturday.


We're taking a break from home stuff tomorrow with a trip to NYC. Happy weekend!