Screening

No holiday weekend is ever long enough. This Memorial Day holiday was no exception.

We didn't go anywhere, opting instead to get some work done on our house (and have bar-be-cues every night with our super-awesome friends). As I mentioned here, we finally got the body of our house painted.

Now we just have to finish the trim. And for some reason, someone convinced us to do a fancy two-tone trim. OK, it was me. I'm all full of ideas that seem good — that is until the time comes to actually make the idea a reality.

So now we're full steam ahead. We got most of the pink accent color done and a fair bit of the green, but we still have a long way to go.

And to slow things down, I decided that the front porch needed new window screens. The old ones are just way too ratty to try to paint and reuse.

See in this picture, the dark green screen in the narrow window. It not be a-lookin' too good.
Here's a closer look lest you don't believe how truly worn out these screens are:
Yeah, not good.

So we headed out to the home improvement store, bought a truck load of incredibily expensive lumber and got to work. Of course, each window was custom built for this house back in 1925, so each screen has to be tailor fit.

It's tedious and slow, but the results are so worth it. Check out this window screen that we made all by ourselves:
Bill and I rock so hard.

So, we're at two down and 8 to go. I can see this project ending up like the paint job on the Golden Gate Bridge — once we finish it will be time to start again.