The house is getting a long-overdue paint job, and tonight the painter is inside doing the last few bits inside the windowsills. This involves opening each of the windows, doing a little scraping, and then painting what I'm assuming is just an inch or so wide strip. Theoretically, this should be no big deal. Even though our windows are on the old & creaky side, I had to open all of them a week or so ago to loosen the screens, so tonight's job shouldn't be hard to do...or not. I think he's spent the last hour banging, grunting, and no doubt cursing at pretty much every window inside the house.
Meanwhile, the cats are down in the basement staring vaguely upstairs in a state of mild alarm wondering what all the commotion is, and sticking to me like glue if I venture down there. Mind you, these are the same cats I practically needed five hands to get down there in the first place. I'm sure they'll be glad to get back upstairs, but in the meantime they're getting a good cardio workout just from the noise.
Posted by Jason at May 22, 2007 09:12 PM