Last week my wife Robin and I, began the overwhelming task of scraping the siding in preparation for paint. We got about a third of the south facing wall scraped and we began to apply oil based primer to it.

This house probably has not been painted in at least 35 years.  The paint fell off of the house, and many of the cedar boards were bare wood when we were done.  We have many more weekends of scraping and priming ahead of us before we begin to apply the new glidden blue exterior paint.

Here's where we left off: