not much to report for this day… It rained all day… But it didn’t stop us from going outside and scraping lead paint. Again we’re doing us by the book… Which means we have to be in full house at outfits all the time… Tyvek suits, gloves, respirators, goggles… And we have to collect all of the paint chips and six mill plastic and roll them up and take them to hazardous waste… It’s about as much fun as it sounds…. 🙂
I did treat ourselves in the evening to a wonderful meal at a Bernie’s restaurant. We went there for the good Snowboarding buddy of Gabes worked there… He was from Hawaii and gave us some hints for our coming trip. It was a cool place… Inside some of the food was served by robots.… Have fun is that? We sat outside… Which was a little bit chilly because it was in the 40s but the food was fantastic
It was pouring on Monday.. Which we knew was going to happen.… It was a perfect day to put up our scaffolding. We had searched for options about how to paint the very high 27 foot peaks of Gabe’s house… Both of which are in narrow alleys between adjacent houses.we looked at tall ladders, pump jacks and scaffolding. Lasders was cheapest.. but there kS only. About 36 inches betweek gabes house and his neiggbor ted.. well actually bhis negbors on both side are name t ed,l the 36 inch one is  ‘nantucket ted’, That didnt give enough distanice for a safe ladder lean at that height. Pubp jacks are chep, but always reauire 2 people and need safety harnasses. Scaffolding is the  most expensive, but was the safest and gives the best quality, So we went. With scaffolding. The company we are workign wit h mostly does commercial scaffolding.. they rarely work with folks like hus whom are painiting their onwn h9mes.. they have been so gr eat to work with.. they offered to save us money by sending onky a foreman and getting us to help erect and later disman tel the scafokding,,
It was rainign oretty hard by the. Time that mario showed uo with hsi truck,, he was super nice to work wit h and called out toeices he needed for us to help build 24. Foot. Scaffolkds on both sides of the house. .. later on his colleague Si. Ame.. between the. 5 of us we got them up in less than 4 hours
We got them up in time to do some scraping.. at the end of the day the sun came out
Today was easter .. and it was also our first day of painting prep. we celebrated by Johnny are Tyvek’s bunny suits and beginning to strip and prep the house… It’s dirty work because we’re trying to be very clean from the standpoint of lead paint abatement. They’re strict laws out here but we would do it anyway. That meant Karina grounded six mill plastic, and wearing full hazmat gear… Tyvek, gloves, goggles, respirators… It also means collecting every crumb of paint and delivering it to the toxic waste group.… It’s been a real pain but we feel like we’re doing the right thing environmentally
We had an incredibly productive day… We were able to completely strip the back Of Gabe’s house which was the most weathered of all… It involves scraping with knives and carbide draw blades.… A lot of it came off. We were then able to actually get the first coat of primer on there…
It already looks so much better… So much more to do but it felt like great progress
today reminded me he much I enjoy traveling . tim picked me up around 12:30 and took me to the airport for my trip out to portland . I was so excited to see diane , gabé , nova and sam. I forgot how exited I was to spend tome in airplanes and airports . for more than 30 years this was my life . I was reminded how much I enjoyed the Quiet non interruption that’s air travel can. bring ..I love people watching an airport… I know it’s a terrible guilty pleasure because I probably have my own ozone hole because of it… I view my work on electric aircraft is kind of penance
Anyway it was very nice to be in that zone again for about nine hours… It was even better to see Diane and GabÉ when I got to Portland… We’re gonna be out here for a couple of weeks painting GabÉ’s house. Believe it or not I’m really excited about that
