work has started on painting the house. my chants of, "oh, i can paint that" when we bought the house are on the endangered speaker's list.
the siding on the back was in the worst shape: it gets uninterrupted afternoon sun 9while the rest of the house gets some respite from other buildings and surrounding trees. so, it made more sense to have it re-sided.
we're going to have the front porch rebuilt in the next few weeks too, so that will be the last part to be repainted when it's put back together.
pictures show most of the scraping and sanding completed.
house will be lightly pressure washed this coming week before they apply oil-based primer. oil-based paints will essentially be outlawed by the end of the year in vermont, we are told.

















