Nick has taken the week off work to toil at manual labour. We asked 4 house painters to do the job and they all refused because they did not want the hassle of scraping, sanding, tsp-ing and priming the surface prior to painting. I guess that is how things are expected these days. Anyway…. we are tackling the job ourselves treading carefully on the garage roof and clambering up high ladders. This is day 3 so far and we are no where near starting to prime and paint yet. We celebrated our days job yesterday with an all you can eat dinner at Barracuda’s. It was mussel night and nick had an order of all three flavours offered. (tomato sauce with Sambuca and feta, garlic and butter in white wine sauce, and a mild curry sauce). Did I mention that there were 24 mussels to each order……we’re going to call him mussel man now. I will post pics on the family album.
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Mussels- yum, yum, triple yum! Our favourite restaurant is Barracuda’s. Oh Eileen you are getting to be such a good bLogger. Thanks for the details.
Now I know what you will be doing Thanksgiving weekend. Good luck and be careful with the exterior house painting. It sounds like a huge undertaking.
Hhmm… Be careful Eileen. If you do too good of a job painting your house, Nick may end up contracting out your services. :)
Nick Bako… aka Mussel Man?? Be careful guy; they claim you are what you eat!
I just saw your painting pics. I can’t believe the contractors wanted to just slap some paint on without doing all the prep work you guys are doing. I know it will look great and last when you are finished.