On the porch.
Posted on July 31st, 2007 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
I have been painting the porch of our hundred year old Craftsman Victorian for the last week. After spending two days sanding, sweating and chipping away, I now only work in the cool of the morning.
Here’s what I’ve learned:
- My new neighbor next door doesn’t walk his
one night standsgirlfriends to the door in the morning. - Never purchase a green without talking to a color consultant. These are words to live by since the beautiful pine green turned into fluorescent lime green on the porch steps. Every single neighbor stopped by, shook their head, and wandered on. The boys(they are twenty years old) next door said it wasn’t too bad, but they were just being nice.
- A heat gun will remove the paint right down to the wood. So says one neighbor two days after I sanded the porch. Grrr.
- Bees seem to like the smell of paint. I rescued more than one field bee from the wet paint. Maybe that’s what’s causing CCD.
- My hair looks better without white Kilz primer in it. Who knew?
- Sound blocker head phones don’t block out the sound of:
- Motorcycles
- People having sex
- Drunken people talking to each other
- Belt sander
- Bands playing in the nearby park
I just thought I would share.
Filed under: The nerdiverse
Tee-Hee. Ahhh, the walk of shame to a lover’s front door. Sometime’s it’s just better to do it alone.
Damn. I was thinking about getting those sound blocker headphones to mute out the accoustics of my roommate’s rabid love making. Plan FOILED!!
ADW - I think I would wear a wig, dark glasses, and a floppy hat - but that’s just me….
La Cubana Gringa - Aren’t you glad I am your tester?? Sorry to disappoint - but I don’t think anything helps with rabid sex. I think a “conversation” Mamacita style is in order.
You must live in an interesting neighborhood. All I hear when I’m outside is the old lady next door’s phone ringing.
Nila - She’s probably running a phone sex line and you just don’t know it.
It’s one of those “cute” neighborhoods with people living right on top of each other.
Heta guns do strip paint very quickly but then a belt sander is needed to get the wood ready, why use sound blocker head sets when you could use an mp3 player, are you keeping a running count on your neighbors “friends” as they leave and waiting for him to walk stiff and sore for his doctors appointment to see what STD he caught.
I’d love a Craftsman house~
The Walking Man - So… one at a time: thanks for the tip on the sander, I don’t feel so stupid. The sound blocker headphones go to my Creative Zen mp3 player. I listened to any less than 4 minute song. I’m a bit slutty like that. I haven’t been running a count on the neighbor but I have a good friend who works at the big STD clinic here in town. We’ll keep tabs on him one way or another. (Maniacal laugh - oh god, I gross myself out!)