Storm

Big storm last night. There's lots of branches and leaves in the yard, but we came out mostly unscathed. One medium sized branch needs to be cut out of the big cottonwood in the back. Our neighbors three houses to the north lost a very large tree that made a big mess of the fences between us and them. This is a photo from the third floor roof deck.

Porch Stuff

	Here's what the porch looked like when we first bought the place. Notice the bare wood rails, peeling bannister, and general run down look.
	First up, I started by scraping and painting the bannister and the stairs and the balustrade up to the porch. It was here that I worked out the color scheme to incorporate the house's red, green, and beige. You can see a bit in the back that the other rails are being primed as this picture was taken.
	We taped off and painted the details on all of the rails around the porch. Here you can see the tape and the red stripe going on the top rail.
	In the meantime, I started painting the corner pieces for the roof/ceilng line. Uh, they still look like this. I ran out of tape. Yeah, that's why they're not done :)
	Brent loves using the paint sprayer so here's a shot of how we put up plastic all around to allow for painting of the ceiling. It blew down once, so the job took longer than expected, but he got it done.
	I snapped this through the window as Brent sprayed primer on the beadboard-plywood ceiling.
	Here's the current view, facing north out of the kitchen door. The floor has been painted green. The light fixtures are both up and working.
	This is the view looking south. The lighting is a bit better in this picture and you can see the dark red ceiling. It looks very nice, especially compared to the plain plywood look it had previously sported.
	Finally, here's the appearance from the yard. In this shot you can see the bare wood lattice. That's one of the next things to paint (besides those fiddly corner things). Brent wants to do it dark red like the ceiling.