Whoever thought painting the railings green and all the pickets or whatever you call them white (both of us) should have had their heads examined! And whoever thought of staining the deck Alligator Green (me) should have been committed! The bi-color railings took twice as long but really looks sharp. The staining was a pain in the buttooski! I swear I dropped one drop of that stuff in the lake and you would have thought I was CEO of BP! It made an oil slick! Lou spent the entire day telling how much the EPA was going to fine me if they found out! Well, after that I was so careful not to pollute our lake that it took me forever! The deck of the little dock didn't take so long because only a 2' X 6' area hung over water. And the stain on old wood looks more alligatory than the stain on new wood so now we have multiple shades of green. Then we thought of painting the two walkways connecting the three docks grey which came out nice and broke up ALL that green.
Now, everyone knows that you cannot put yucky old furniture on a new dock right? So Lou spent three days painting furniture! I was busy staining all the little edges of the boards on the refurbished dock slowly and carefully. Then I had to repaint all my birdhouses which had come off the railings so the railings could be painted. The last piece of furniture repainted was my tea cart which had been placed along the fence line hopefully but futilely put there to slow down the dogs. Little Tucker (the neighbors dog) comes outside about 3 or 4 time a day. Each time he does, he races to the fence between our properties, barks or rather yaps his arrival, and there commences a race back and forth along the fence. Our 5 and little Tucker just a runnin and a barking for about two minutes then little Tucker prances away, his work done! Now our five dogs when bored will line up along the fence line and sit and stare and wait for hours for little Tucker to make his appearance. What is really funny is when our are in the house and Tucker makes his entrance. Five dogs go through two doggie doors at record speed. This is a 9" X 18" doggie door folks and sometimes they go through two at a time. Now four of these dogs are under 20 pounds but one weighs 60 pounds if she weighs an ounce and she goes through that door like a hot knife through butter and sometimes with a little dog under her belly! But I digress.
The fountain is in, the newly painted furniture is on the refurbished dock. The lighthouse is in the corner though not yet electrically hooked up. So tonight while we sat relaxing on the dock, Lou says, "Too bad the lighthouse isn't bigger. It would look cool out on the edge of the dock." Do you know where this is leading and why we should not talk to each other at the end of the day? So I say, "Well, you could build a bigger one." We still have the new dock to stain! But tomorrow we are going to take a break....at least from paintbrushes. I might talk Lou into getting the compressor out to reattach the birdhouses with his air brad gun, and a couple of pickets Bear loosened as he likes to use them as back, head, side scratchers. And I need to give five dogs flea baths. The interior of the house needs a thorough cleaning but the weather is so nice that as we are outdoors until sunset and if we use low lighting and do not look down when we do come in, you could hardly tell. Thank goodness we don't get much company! So how big do you think the lighthouse should be? Night all!
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