Drew, Adam, and Tom are home for the week to paint the house. Local painters gave us estimates of $6K, so even with airfare, we are way under that.
Saturday was bright and sunny, and was spent in scraping and priming preparation:

The old basketball hoop is now a shadow of its former self:

Some areas needed more preparation than others:

Shutters:

Painting of the body color happened on Monday, thanks to a paint sprayer loaned to us by Bernie Benson:


Anson was on vacation for the week, and helped paint the garage:

Madelyn also got a few strokes in:
Looking beautiful:

Two more days, working on trim in rainy weather, and it was done.