The Color Choice

 

Above is our house in 2007, I forgot to take a before photo until bob had sanded the shutters and started painting.

NOTE the difference in the green above and below. Drought for the past 5 years

I you enlarge you can see Bob in the two top photos and the bottom right the color of the door was Gray/Blue as were the shutters. When we bought the house in 1989 the shutters were gray, 1998 at age 62 Bob painted the house, inside and out.  While I was at work.

Bob painted the house in 1998, on the last day, he was at the top of the Peek, the ladder fell sideways, he fell across it, 

fractured five ribs, and for 3 months had to

sleep on the sofa, because he could not lay flat. 

My uncle did the same thing when he was 82 years old, leaned the ladder on the roof,

it slid down in the sand and he rode it to the ground

fracturing both wrists.

2 months with a cast from fingers to elbows.

think potty time, poor aunt Helen.

And that is why I don't want him on a ladder.

The wall of the front is done, he still needs to paint the garage door 

and the trim that requires a tall ladder

and below is Painter bob, hard at work.

It took him 5 days of 3 hours each day to get this far.

I think it a miracle he could do it at age 85 and with 2 new knees.

1 knee is 8 months old, the other is just 3 months old.

 

The color was # 3, red clover. It looked like a deep rose color but is more

peachy than I like.

Bob Loves it, I can live with it.

No one guessed the color, but Annie got the closest because she said she would pick # 2 which is the same color but a lot darker..

Seems all of you wanted Aqua.

This is not the Rose I wanted, but I can live with it.