Painting the Fence

We have a white picket fence. Laugh all you want, but that's what was here when we bought the place, and we really don't need to try to find a better solution to this. Of course, the fence wasn't exactly white. I'd describe the color as "weathered." There was also this old sign attached to it (it was an old no parking sign) that had been painted over.


Ever since we got the outside of the house painted, this fence has looked especially bad. Today the weather was lovely enough to do some painting. Jake made a quick trip to our friends at Ace hardware down the street, and I got busy. Three hours later, I've finished one side of the fence. It's a long, tedious job. And sadly, though all the neighborhood kids were out and about on their bikes, and kept stopping by to talk and see Carter, they did not fall for the Tom Sawyer fence painting trick.



Carter was quite useless, as seen here: