The Pizza de Resistance

Water-soaked rags on our heads...they helped.

The architectural pizza de resistance (a John Ross term) is the front porch.  On this Friday of our second week  we'd wanted to finish that--and a whole lot more.  The problem was the heat.  According to the Community Bank Time and Temp sign (which we can see from the lift) it was 108 by noon.

We kept at it as long as we could but by mid-afternoon we had to put on the brakes.  Nobody was ready to call it quits, because our principal painter--Ken-- will be away for three weeks and we'll be in slow-mo during that time.

Anyway...we had lemonade shandies on the side porch and quickly got over the heartbreak of not reaching our goal.

Pediment colors are tricky, we discovered.

K-Coog this is your side of the house.

Final pediment colors are on hold for now.

Pizza for lunch seemed thematically correct.

We all officially signed off for the holiday week.