Well folks, I am hooligan number two, pleased to make your acquaintance. I spent a lovely morning at Riverview priming the ceiling. This involved lots of moving ripped plastic tarps, dripping, and struggling to open paint cans. Shout out to paint can designers from our good friend Ken (aka the master carpenter, responsible for all the exquisitely functional wooden work tables and confoundingly complicated hoop house doors) to design cans to allow for more easily controlled drippings. We managed to polish off one of the five gallon buckets! Huzzah! When I left off, the ceilings first coat of primer was nearing completion. I also learned a bit about getting primer out of clothing and hair! Luckily, this type was water based and hopefully wasn't too noticeable!
Background info on the garage renovation project: the garage is going to be converted into a shoppe where all the various tinkering related to building and improving stuff will take place. This conversion is taking place over winter. Panels for insulation were installed and mudded (I believe the boring and correct term is 'dry-walled') over on three of the four walls and the ceiling. Priming and painting has been been finished on the walls, and theoretically should also be finished on the ceiling by next week. Also going on in the shoppe today was the painting of bat houses by our Kimberly comrades.
Also; this lesson took place on the twelfth, but I think is very valuable so I shall share it. There are these awesome attachments onto drills that stir paint! They seem really cool--causing a type of upwards moving current similar to boiling water. But sometimes drills are too small for them to fit onto. And a drill press seems to be a closer size. Don't do it, though. Because the attachment-paint-stirrer will get bent. And the pain won't even get stirred. Alas!
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