Shallow Thinker

In January, I built a silly little contraption to help us sort our recyclables a little easier.  In the past 6 months, it’s been rained on and baked by the sun a little bit.  This caused me to think that it needed some type of protective coating.  As luck would have it, we just happened to have a bunch of little paint cans laying around the garage.  And then, as it so often does, my bran took a horribly wrong turn.

Yesterday, Kelley needed to get some grocery shopping done.  It seemed to me to be the perfect opportunity to get the girls to “help” me paint this contraption.  We put on some old clothes, found all of our brushes, and then I opened up the little cans of paint in the garage.  What I expected to happen was a slight mess, but some general covering of the wood.  What actually happened was a general mess and a slight covering of the wood.  At one point, Ladybug let out a sad cry and when I glanced at her, she had paint all over her face.  Either the brush slipped or she decided to eat the paint.  Either way, it was funny.

They dripped so much paint on the floor that when they walked, it left little, colored footprints all over the garage.  Pretty soon, as I suspected, they became bored with painting the wood and moved on to the plastic bins.  This wasn’t my item of choice, but it kept them busy enough for me to circle out structure and coat it with the paint that we had left…which just happened to be green.

Once we were done, I stepped back and marveled that I could actually see parts of the floor.  And, the only remaining item was clean-up.  So, I took my little paint spreaders into the backyard and let them play in the sprinkler.  This isn’t exactly the way that the labels said that we were supposed to clean the paint, but it worked well.

Moral of the story, if you have an item that you’d like painted, let us know.  We’ll spend about 5 minutes with it and in no time, your floor will be a different color.