painting update, aug. 15

Today is Friday.  My dad has been here off and on this week.  We've had some rain, and that has set us back, along with the paint sprayer trouble.  We're still trying to get the sprayer going.  I drove to Wilmington today to get some parts that we hope is going to fix it.  Shane is working on it now.  Yesterday Shane and I got on the lift and got the first coat of lavender on the kitchen wall, and did some caulking and some first coat on the front dormer.  Shane almost finished the lavender on the front dormer today.  One side needs a second coat.  Then there's trim to do there.   Mama came up this morning and worked for a while on the sprayer, but to no avail. Daddy caulked a big part of the day (we are on our 3rd case of caulk for this project so far. . . .)  Our friend Janet came to help today for several hours.  She and I got first coat of lavender  on the bottom half of the corner where Grandmama's garden is.  She also finished to the top of the house where I had left off because I was too short :~)  How nice that height must be sometimes.  How nice to have tall friends :~) who are willing to donate a big part of their day off to help. . . .   Progress. . . I'd say 2/3 of the house has at least a first coat, most of the scraping is done -- there are a couple of sections left.  Ditto for the caulking.  Some areas have second coat, but no trim has been done. . . . .One thing for sure -- there's a lot more lavender showing now!!!!!!!!!    Tomorrow Randy and Marina are planning to come and help again, and Shanda and Stephen perhaps part of the day -- not sure if anyone else is coming, but the help just keeps filtering in.  Stephen's looking forward to actually "painting" if he helps tomorrow, since he did nothing but scrape last week! :~\   I'll continue with periodic updates -- lots of interruptions over the next week, but I'll let you know as progress happens.  Continue to keep us in your prayers.   Blessings, Tonnye