22 May 2019
A perfect day for painting: clear, low humidity,
and temps in the 60’s. Put the top coat
on the exterior window trim frames and two coats on the garage door trim. Only have a little bit of paint left on my
hands after two thorough scrubbings and a shower. Guess painting just isn’t one of my
fortes. Also applied Geocel®
to the garage door top trim and sheathing seam, then installed the garage door
drip edge. Perry came by late afternoon
with his laser level (and also brought a swarm of black flies and mosquitoes). We (Perry and I, not the flying pests) shot a
series of benchmarks around the barn, which will allow me to establish the
shingle exposures (technical term: the exposure is how much of each shingle you
see, typically about 5″) and set the bottom course of shingles in a level line
around the building.
