Scaffolding

For those of you that do not know, we did not get the children. It sucks and there really isn't much of an upside to the situation - for us or them or anyone involved in the case. The fact that we don't have them and have the Fall River house on the market, means we are moving onto house projects that have been on hold due to time or child safety concerns.

After we moved in we removed a NASTY, rotton, moldy, cat urine infested porch off the backside of the house (before it fell off) and later decided to not replace it in favor of more kitchen counter space. That left an ugly spot of dead-ended clapboard, plywood, vertical boards, etc. My sister used the time she was going to spent with the children tearing the old siding off. We've got 1000 feet of clapboard coming soon. So we borrowed scaffolding. I don't think we set it up right - it doesn't reach the back of the house.... :)

Actually, while we're waiting for the clapboard, we've (ok, Dale has) devised a safe way to finally finish painting the side of the house. Left to my own devices, I would have parked the Aztek on the hill, set the parking brake (for safety of course) and run the ladder out of the open sunroof and painted the side of the house. Dale, being a stickler for safety, thought the scaffolding idea would be better. He made the comment "better than backing a truck up and putting a ladder in the truck bed." Little does he know that's how we painted my parent's house.... Ain't nuthin wrong with a little redneck every now and then.