[speaker001:] okay Jean what what have you recently painted
[speaker002:] well I'm not uh painting of the artist variety what I like to do is I like to paint the inside of a house
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] paint cabinets or paint furniture but I'm not doing much of that right now haven't for quite some time
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker002:] how about you
[speaker001:] well I painted a shed this summer that I built and I went and borrowed a uh a paint sprayer from a a fellow that I know I'm good friends with and it's the only way to go I painted eight gallons of paint um I I put some stain and stuff on a on a redwood deck I made and I painted the uh my shed and it probably took me about six hours but it was just it's just incredible how much easier it is uh with a spray gun how much smoother it goes on and even and more professional looking and um I don't know I was just really pleased with it do you use some kind of a power painter rollers or something when you paint or
[speaker002:] just just uh old fashioned brush and roller yes yeah when
[speaker001:] is that right you you you do it the hard way I shouldn't
[speaker002:] yes uh a a very messy way too uh we haven't done much painting
[speaker001:] these sound so hard but
[speaker002:] interior or exterior in the last uh two years two and a half years we we bought a mobile home and with the natural oak
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] or natural wood paneling on the inside we don't have that painting to to contend with but uh my husband has painted uh some of our storage buildings and when he put the uh skirting around the the mobile home then it had to be uh sealed painted
[speaker001:] um-hum um how do you uh oh I would imagine that the weather's pretty hard on paints down there is it is it not
[speaker002:] yes it is uh probably the summers the summers are harder winters actually than the winters are because it uh the sun you know bakes and dries them out and we don't have an a lot of freezing weather like you would in Idaho
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh how frequently do you have to paint then
[speaker002:] uh usually not more often than about every oh three to five years depending on the type of finish that you use and too the the type of wood that you're putting it on
[speaker001:] how how do you uh prep your wood is there a fast easy way or is it just the old scraper brush on the outside is I guess what I'm speaking of
[speaker002:] oh that is the um the only thing that that I know of we um were fortunate in that the last uh painting work that my husband did was on new finish so it didn't have to be
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] prepped anyway we had painted uh or had paint I had a house painted that we owned over in uh Greenville and we had it brushed and scraped and uh a primer coat brushed on and then the in fact I think there was two coats of primer and then three coats of the uh paint that went on that it was an old frame frame house but it lasted very very well it must have been on there nearly ten years before it needed painting again
[speaker001:] hm inside how do you keep the paint off your carpet or do you have that problem anytime I try something like that I got paint all over the carpet and we're in there with uh I have to use water base paint and and uh in there with a big wet towel and about every three minutes I got to stop and clean my paint specks up all over
[speaker002:] yeah that sounds familiar too my husband hates to see me get the painting bug because he says I'm I make a a terrible mess and I guess I do but um
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] uh in the times that he has helped me taping the uh one of those plastic drop cloths to the baseboard
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] and then setting chairs or something against it to keep the keep it from getting kicked loose is about the best way to keep it you know from speckling all around
[speaker001:] um-hum uh
[speaker002:] how did you get involved in the uh this project that we're doing on the voice recording
[speaker001:] uh Brian White from down there as I mentioned before sent his his wife and my uh and my wife of course are sisters are sisters and they got involved in it they got us involved in it
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but kind of enjoyed it um don't always have time to to pick the phone up and participate