In some ways, it’s good to know that things can be repaired. Some things get broken, and some things get raggy.

There was a spot along the front of my house that was getting raggy. The paint was peeling off, and even some ants were columning in and out.

So, I peeled off the paint the rest of the way. I cleaned it, and I sanded it. THen I cleaned it again. There were a lot of layers of paint. I figured i”d better put quite a few layers of primer on it. KILZ 2…Four layers.

Here is what it looked like:

The perspective is a little hard to see. That patch of white paint is about 8 feet long. Four layers still left a ridge, but it did seal off the wood and the inside of the house from the invasion of ants.

I let it dry, and then I put the color on it.

This is what it looked like when I was done:

A woman builds her house with her own hands, the proverbs says. And maybe she keeps it from falling down with her own hands too.