Yesterday I didn't want to do advertising specialties. I felt tired and frustrated and absolutely did not want to do what I needed to do. So I decided to touch-up the paint on the house and add the brick-red trim that I have been meaning to do for 2 1/2 years.
When the house was first painted in May of 2006, I intended to paint the trim right after the wedding. Then my hip started hurting really bad and I spent lots of time going to doctors (in between my work shifts at US Airways) and was kind of afraid to climb ladders. My hip got worse and worse through the holidays and then in January of 2007 it was so bad when Gordon took us up to Utah to go snowmobile-ing that I decided to go to a specialist. Well, that didn't turn out too well. Finally, I went to Dr. Armstrong and he replaced my hip on September 25th, 2007.
So now that my hip was replaced, I had to do all the physical therapy and get moving again. By the time I went to NY for Anna's biopsy and then her mouth surgery and then to Utah for Jim's funeral and again for Nate's BYU performance and then his Carnegie performance in New York -- it was too hot to be painting the outside of a house in Arizona.
After record heat in Arizona through October, it is finally cool enough to paint the trim!
The first thing I did was fill the cracks and the holes with this elastomeric stuff. I hope it works well. I have never used it before. I have to let it dry for 24 hours before I can paint over it. Then I looked at it this morning and some of the thicker places, I need to go over it again. I'll probably go home and do that now.
I will have to finish this later, Cecily needs to take me home.
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