day 6: "i am thankful for.........VINYL SIDING!"

.....oh my gosh, you have no idea how thankful!

just let me tell you that we have taken on the arduous task of painting our ugly orange brick ranch house.

well, above the brick, on the gable ends of the house, and in front, above our living room picture window... there is wood siding that has seen better days (to put it mildly).  layers of paint chipping away to reveal thin/cracked/redwood siding, about to crumble with the slightest touch.  my power washer dug rivets into it. we like to save money where we can, so, instead of buying siding to replace/or go over the old, i have been: 1. power washing 2. scraping 3. power sanding 4. priming 2x 5. painting (haven't reached this step yet) the existing dilapidated wood siding....UGH!!!!

here is a picture of the gable end closest to the garage....just this small section directly below took over an hour to scrape/power sand and it still looks like crap!

my hubby, working in the backyard on the shed re-do, over heard me (screaming some not so nice words) at the house.....walked up to me....and....told me to "stop sanding, we are going out to buy vinyl siding"...!!!! 

Thank you GOD. :0))



 ....so, what are you especially thankful for today?! :)