Our hotel complex is getting ready for the summer.
There is power washing going on and it’s very noisy especially just outside our front door!
The pool has been cleaned and primed ready for brave swimmers like Perripoppins.
Walk and entry-ways have been daubed institutional grey.
The yellow lines for parking spaces are being re-painted.
The man in white is the official roller wielder, his observer is in charge of the power washer when he’s not taking a break to help his buddy with witty conversation.
Our windows look out onto this parking lot and there was a lot of laughing, singing and gesticulating going on, probably a little too much because….
this happened!
Happy workers having just a little too much fun!
That’s a five gallon bucket of very yellow paint upended right in the middle of the lot!
What a bright mess! it looks like one of the art projects I used to do with the children with chalk in our driveway or tempera paint on the kitchen table.
Hubs was never a fan of the sidewalk chalk…he would pray for rain to save him having to get the hose out.
And what about bright, yellow paint designed to withstand all weathers? In the end they had to wait for it to dry before power washing it up,
sort of!
This sight reminded me of when we took up the carpet to lay bare the concrete in our living room.
A multitude of sins were revealed beneath, including spilled glue, spatters of paint and large areas of white emulsion where buckets had been kicked over in the revelry of painting the 30 foot walls and vaulted ceilings of a vacant house.
Two adults and 4 children and their dog scrubbed and scraped for days, very hard work after 20 years of hiding, before we could seal and stain the floors.
Last afternoon the same men were refreshing the car park over by our entryway. As we were walking to our suite I saw another 5 gallon mess of glowing, yellow, paint that had managed to spill itself all over the pavement.
It looks like something out of Sesame Street!
I am so glad our car hasn’t been a victim yet, hopefully they’ve almost finished this little project!
Unbelievable.
You do get what you pay for!
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
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