Ladders

Black screen doors must go.

Today's work began and ended with ladders.  Before 9 we headed to Springhill to borrow Tom and Cherry's uber-ladder.  It was way too much for us to haul back to Clinton, so we moved to Plan B which was to borrow the 24 foot Habitat ladders for a few days.

Only problem was, they're in Hickman.  So we combined the trip to Hickman with a paint run to Fulton.  We got back around noon, and discovered that the four gallons of paint I had mixed for the trim color was much darker than the first batch. That's it on the ceiling of the porch....like walking into a banana skin.  Should be the same color as the column.

Tried out a copper on the mailbox.

Sooo...back to Fulton for an "add white" trip at the end of the day.  The payoff:  painting the navy band around the lower part of the porch as the sun went down.  Never really noticed the brickwork before. 

The porch ceiling may end up being cedar, same as the porch floor will be.  And those black screen doors really do hurt my eyes.  Anyway,  I had to crawl back up with my 1-inch Purdy to and see how the cedar and navy combo worked.  At this point Ira came out and physically dragged me off the ladder.  Time to call it a day.