January 17, 2006

Where Was Robbo?

I spent all day yesterday painting the dining room at the Butcher's House. Even though the room has a chair rail and wainscotting all around, thereby reducing the area of the walls to be painted by about a third, it still took a long time.

The toughest part was dealing with the chair rail and the moldings around the doors, window and ceiling. I gave up bothering with tape a long time ago - it never seems to work and usually just makes a bigger mess. Nowadays, I just free hand the edges. This works, but it is a tedious and exacting process.

Anyhoo, the job took me about eleven hours or so. I'm pretty sure huffing paint fumes all that time didn't kill too many brain cells, but if I sound a bit incoherent today, you'll mango bunnies comstock frooble zim, I'm sure.

Posted by Robert at January 17, 2006 08:22 AM | TrackBack
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Will the painting ever end???

Posted by: Babs at January 17, 2006 03:35 PM

No, that's the punch line. By the time I cycle all the way through the house, it's time to start over again. The Missus is beginning to make ominous noises about our front hall, my very first job in the place which I painted five years ago.

Posted by: Robbo the LB at January 17, 2006 03:41 PM