House work

This past weekend started with the goal of painting the fence with a fresh coat of paint.  To make it a bit less manual I got a pressure washer to help with scraping off the old paint.

Things went sideways when we realized that one of the fence posts was rotted and cracked and would need to be pulled out.

So the entire 30 degree weekend was spent doing exhausting work trying to dig and pull out a pillar of concrete in a 3.5 foot deep hole.

Having grown up in newfoundland the ability to hand shovel a hole that was nearly 4ft deep without finding any rocks what-so-ever was something of a revelation.  This is what using a shovel is supposed to be like.

The fence post shenanigans have pushed out the painting work. It’s only 1/2 done now and the back side of the fence looks like a scrapped up mess.  So it’ll be another few hours of work before everything is complete.