After a light sanding to remove the bugs I had the side of the house ready to go today.

Siding and trim primed

After a short trip to the dump and the paint store (out of primer after a day of priming), I got to painting.

Painting away - the house is green!

While I painted, Ryan worked on the window panels, he started by putting in the window sill replacements so the sill goes all the way around the cupola.

Sill pieces in

And finally – about 3:30 the side of the house was painted green!

Coat one finished!

The trim will be yellow (the color of the windows) with some red accents (the moldings) when it’s finally done.  For now it’s got one coat and I just need another nice day to get the second coat on so i can start the trim!

After painting I helped out on the window panels.  We managed to get the first window box on the left side all framed out.  It goes really really slowly with all the angles but it’s looking good.

finishing up for the night with some wood filler.

I didn’t get a good picture of how far we got but i’ll grab one tomorrow.

And tomorrow it looks to be cooler (70) but no rain still so maybe i can get that second coat of green on!  If i get it on early enough I can then do some trim painting after it dries – that would be great.

My other project for tomorrow is to continue working on the porch decking.  We have to jack up and put some supports under the part that’s left because it’s sagging in the middle, then just lay down the rest of the decking.

Not sure yet which project will win for sure, I really should do the painting but my legs are very bruised from the ladder already – we’ll see if I can manage it!