Painting
Written on August 29, 2010 at 10:38 pm, by Danno
For the last few weeks I have been spending my spare time painting the Duck Shack. The last paint job, while it looked good going on, was terrible. Put a scraper to the siding and you go two layers deep in paint before you hit solid… wood. Yep, not much effort went into prepping things last time. It’s a shame, because the paint itself has another bunch of years in it. It’s that old, peeling paint that is the problem. Oh well, my scraper is getting a work out…
Painting takes me back to those good old days when I was short on life-experience. But full of optimism I guess. Anyway, I learned to paint a few summers during college working for a painter, John Carlton, in our church. He must have employed every able, available body in our church at some point over the years. I can’t remember how many years, maybe three (summers plus other breaks), I worked for him, but they were good years. The pay was good and as John used to say, “Painting beats working for a living.” Yeah, well, it was work, but it wasn’t bad work. And that work was very much appreciated.
Of course, I didn’t really know good work from bad work back then. It beat cleaning out horse stalls, but probably not mowing a meadow. On the other hand… it was a lifelong skill, turns out.
I guess most of what I know about painting I actually learned from my brother, Hal. At the time, he also worked for John, and had several years of experience when I got started. Every day on my house these days I am reminded of the things Hal drilled into me. How to paint a door, what about louvers, door frames, windows (the biggie), trim or siding first?, what needs to be primed, what needs to be sanded? All these things came from my brother. I always thought I could/would paint better than him, but I never did. And I guess I never will.
Rumor has it Hal has been painting the inside of his house this summer. See what I mean about lifelong skills? And I guess this is the summer of the Capshaw boys (now past middle age — barely 
) painting again. Me, I’m lucky to be working on the outside. Another rumor though is that I get to paint the inside next. Maybe I shouldn’t have told Lori about why I know how to paint so well!
And to close, a pic of lovely Lori from this evening.
Today Was Busy
Written on August 27, 2010 at 10:45 pm, by Danno
But I still managed to get my run in. Here I am pre-run.
And Lori at the end of her long day… resting on the couch. Yeah, it’s about 52 degrees outside right now. Typical summer evening in the fog line. And, down comforters are all the rage this time of year.
Oh Yeah!
Written on August 26, 2010 at 10:30 pm, by Danno
What an amazing, beautiful world. Some pics from a trip back East a couple of weeks ago. Of course this is actually Utah…
Summitar is a Star
Written on August 25, 2010 at 9:48 pm, by Danno
My LTM Summitar lens has turned out much better than I had hoped. At first I thought it wasn’t as sharp as it is, but that was a film/camera issue. Here’s another shot of Lori from the Lumix & Summitar. Very nice indeed:
And here is a Cookie shot:
