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We chose a local company and our big barn will finally get some color in his cheeks.
An oil based stain was matched to baby barn’s red paint… and white trim will finish him off.
I’ve been waiting 8 years for this… so, yay.
The painters showed up the other day to pressure wash off the black mold. They thought this would be a quick prep, saying it would only take a few hours.
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10 gallons of bleach, one broken pressure washer, an auxiliary pump and 8 hours later…
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They recalculated and said they wouldn’t be able to get it all off as promised.
Which we told them would be the case, as we’d tried ourselves and failed.
But they got a lot more than we managed, and it looks better.
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Of course they had to move all the trim wood we’d bought to do the porch, so this is now my afternoon cocktail view.
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Not ideal.
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But hopefully it’s more temporary than my husband’s so called temporary doors.
River's world..... 
Can’t wait to see it finished!!
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I can’t either!
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It does look much better ( the barn, not the view).
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If the husband had been willing to seal it with a clear coat when we built it, I might have left it natural. But the section under the porch is always a different shade and that drives me nuts.
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Congrats, you have a Papa Barn!!! Okay it’s been there for a while but this is a huge step for your hubs in the “Husband Rehab” program. Letting other people do the work instead of Tim The Toolman Taylor way of doing it, lol.
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It’s epic!
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Do you suppose they power wash PEOPLE as well? Because I know a few folks who could use it…
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I don’t think they do…. but they should!
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I’m trying to come up with a joke involving ladders and the star of 1951’s Shane and it’s just not happening.
I’ll try to get back to you after my own afternoon cocktail
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Looking forward to it…
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So what is the date of the ‘open barn’ party??
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To be determined…
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Looks so much better! Can’t want for the finale.
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Its been a long time coming…
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