Getting some color

Another milestone for Francesca this week--one side painted!  Well, mostly anyway.  I spent the week preparing her streets ide for painting.  It's the side that doesn't have any holes or any other issues still needing to be taken care of.  I sanded; washed and dried; cleaned off old adhesives from near windows with acetone; wiped the whole side down with acetone; put painter's tape on all the edging.

It turned out that it was still too cool to paint--only 50 degrees, barely.  So I spent the rest of the day tearing out the fronts of the galley cabinets and taking measurements to re-do them and to build the new cabinet.  I have to figure out how many sheets of plywood/paneling I need to buy.  Man, they really did use junk wood for the cabinet frames--it looks like the stuff they make pallets out of!  I think I'll use something just a little better for the cabinet I'm building.

Today, I did the painting.  I painted my darker salmon peach first with a roller. 






Then I took a white sport sock inside out and ragged on the light peach over top.  Still not quite what I was trying to do. 



So I used a combination of my dark color with a little of the light peach together.  It looks AWESOME!  Kinda reminds me of Italy at Busch Gardens.  Francesca is looking good!
 

 

 I haven't decided yet about the bottom panel--to paint the same as the middle or to do a darker ragging?  I guess Francesca will tell me when she's decided what she wants.

 

A Taste of Sunshine

If you remember, back to July I had borrowed the carport from our Boy Scout troop to cover and protect Francesca.  I knew that they would need it back in time for their Feast in the Woods to use as their dining fly/kitchen space.  Silly me, I thought I'd have her all put back together by then!  I mean FIVE months--how could I NOT be done with her after all that time???  Yeah sure!

Friday morning, we went out to the backyard and disassembled the carport.  This was the first time since mid-July that Francesca was out in the wide open with the sun shining down on her--and she LOVED it!!  I think she was kind of sunbathing!  She looked a little strange to me out in the open like that...

However, the Boy Scout feast was a huge success with a very large turnout.  And the carport spent a couple of days being a dining fly in a different woods.

  And being a witness to a very special ceremony--a retirement ceremony for an American flag.

Sunday morning we woke up early and headed over to the campout to take the dining fly apart, bring it home, and turn it back into a carport for Francesca.  Everything is back to normal!!