Chores
Posted By Russ Emerson on July 10, 2004 at 11:09 am
Saturday… Mom is visiting… so I have to at least appear to be doing useful stuff on the weekend.
This morning: paint the ceiling in guest bathroom. Thankfully, it’s only an 8-foot-high ceiling. Yes, I’m extraordinarily tall, but painting involves pushing a roller up against the ceiling for half an hour – it gets tiresome.
I gave it a coat yesterday, and ran into that age-old problem: being able to tell where you’ve already put fresh white paint on top of older white paint. Oh, bother. So after dinner last night I ran out to the home improvement store and bought a gallon of that “color changing” ceiling paint.
I’ll admit to a bit of trepidation this morning as I rolled a coat of lavender/pink paint onto the ceiling, but sure enough, it’s already fading to white.
Very cool. Sometimes I just love technology.
And my deltoids have had a nice workout.
On Sunday my sister-in-law and I learned the hard way that you really should paint gray primer on the wall before painting it with fire engine red! Those paint people at Home Depot know whereof they speak (g).
A high dollar fiberglass roller pole is your friend. Even with 8 ft ceilings. Even if you’re 6’4′.