Painting

A few weeks ago, I volunteered myself (and James) to help my mom paint the exterior of their house. They've lived there for ten years and in that time, it's never been painted. Here's one of the "before" pictures that my mom emailed me to show how it looked last week.

Here is that same side of the house after scraping of most of the flaking paint.

The first section we tackled was the part of the house adjacent to the deck. It's hard to tell, but the new paint is a very pale, buttery yellow. I think it looks very nice. I won't comment on Steven's expression in this picture, but feel free to draw your own conclusions.

I luckily didn't get any paint in my hair, but Mandy's ponytail was not so lucky. James and Steven also had significant amounts of paint in their hair.

James and I are going back in two weeks to (hopefully) finish the rest of the house. I think it will look super-nice when done, and I'll try to have some good before-and-after comparison pictures.

I know that people aren't supposed to enjoy painting, but I had a lot of fun. Being outside in the beautiful weather probably had a lot to do with that. I didn't even miss my knitting at all.

Yesterday I finally made it to a knitting meetup, and after unsuccessfully trying to work on a traveling scarf, I worked on my new sock and turned the heel. Once at home, I decided to try on the sock-in-progress. (Believe it or not, I usually do try on my socks-in-progress while still on the needles.) Um, it didn't work so well. I snapped one of my needles, and now I cannot continue the socks until I get some new size 2 DPNs. I gave in and worked on the traveling scarf.