Down to the walls

Exterior work at Haddon began today, and wow, what a transformation. You don't realize how overgrown things have gotten until you see them trimmed back. Although I admit the pictures make it look pretty obvious.



We had a little downpour earlier and Sergio thought for a minute they would need to switch to working inside. The first thing they do indoors is not painting, but prep for painting - filling in all the holes and cracks and so on, all over the house. Thus my job for the day became taking everything off the walls, all over the house. It's funny. At first you think this means you take down the art, and you do. Then you realize it also means the curtains (because of the rods and tiebacks), the artsy light switch plates that you want to take with you, the hooks that are only practical and not aesthetic, the ugly towel rack you always meant to get rid of but then you'd have to paint the door, etc etc etc. So I've been spending many hours doing that. And then the stuff that that displaces has to be cleaned up. Thus, my day.

As it has turned out, the rain quit after five minutes, so the exterior work has continued. They are now washing the house. I hope for the workers' sake that the mist from the power washer is cool: it is nasty hot out there.