Catchy title.. no ? .. Well.. that’s actually what I’ve been doing most of the afternoon. As you may know, Diane and I are repainting the interior of the bell tower.. the tiny room on the top of the house that I sometimes use as an office. It’s a small room, but a real bear to paint. Lots of corners.. years of chipping paint..(the room has been at one time green  grey, white, blue, and yellow.). and some tough places to reach. The peak is about 18 feet up..at the peak and about 11 feet at it’s lowest.. lots of weird reaches.. over holes in the floor.. One with a 45 drop.

Given the amoun tof cut-in and the uneven surface, i opted to use a sprayer for the first coat of primer.. That can be messy.. so I traded my weekend clothes for a pair of Brother Billy’s old srubcs and an inside out sweatshirt.. The trouble came when I was up on the platform 10 feet off the floor.. with a sprayer in one hand.. .. Now.. I’m not all that skinny.. but.. let’s just say I’m posteriiorly challenged.. . Those scrubs just would not stay up.. I tied them as tightly as I could.. but every time i did.. they would slide down and finally fall to the floor.. Pulling them up meant turning off the sprayer.. putting it down.. cleaning the paint of my hands and pulling up my pants.. after about the 5th time I said ‘forget it’ … or something to that effect 🙂   I thought about it for a sec.. no one would see me forom the road..unless they happened to look up into the tower.. a good 55 feet above street level. there was also little chance of getting surprised by someone from inside the house. You can usually hear folks tromping up the stairs .. So.. I did the rest of the job half naked.. … .. It was quite comfortable really.. ,..

I got the ceiling done.. so I climbed down from the platform and started on the walls.. well.. wouldn’t you know.. the windows are at chest level.. no fear of offending folks on the street … if there were any (see Jonesville Vermont.. population 600)   so I did that part au naturel as well..

I have to say that the change of costum made the job esier and quite a bit cooler..Isn’t it nice when things work out like that ?

nite all, nite sam

-me