I’d just finished painting all the walls, two coats with a quality paint. The next step: to apply white enamel to the baseboards to set off the new tan walls, so I grabbed the handy and thoroughly cleaned 3” Purdy brush I’d used on the kitchen enamel. That’s the one on the right in the pic. It worked well for the first 20’, but began to hold more paint than I could scrape off, and it began to drip onto the new tile floors. Not a good thing. And, once again, that reaffirmed what’s close to an absolute truth...
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Walk Wisely
This last summer my grandson Josh and I took off to climb Mt. Whitney, the tallest peak in the lower 48. His success, and my failure, were recounted in an earlier post, so we'll not repeat my embarrassment. But the Whitney ascent begins with a nice, fairly moderate wooded trail. In my ignorance, I assumed the rest of the trail would be as easy. But like the pic of the trail shows, relatively soon the timberline took over, an altitude too high for trees to grow, and few plants of any kind. The woods gave way to ...
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