Back Priming is Real

We spent this afternoon and very early evening down at the Empire priming cedar board after cedar board.

Thankfully two of our many ailing houses provided shadow cover from that thing called 'sun'. Faye's house needs over thirty new cedar planks installed (and they are eerily like a long pirate plank that you must walk and then spiral to your death in a sea of primer).

As it was going along I painted a little edge of one side and then the entire other side. As the side I was painting all of was very finished looking and had a little decorative indent in it I gathered it was the side facing out, after all why else would we prime only it and the edge? Dad came by and noticed that while I was painting the edge some had slopped out onto the rest of the unpainted side.

"What are you doing! That side faces out". Dad exclaimed.
"WHAT! No one told me. This is the pretty side over here!" I defended.
"Well that's not how the house was built!" He retorted.

Blah, blah. Dad said we were perfectionistically painting only the back and that this was called BACK PRIMING. Well, I had scarcely heard something so made up sounding in nigh on to five weeks.

Tonight I googled back priming and... folks this is serious business.

Jeremy and I also plundered two of the houses in the Empire and searched for some of our stuff. I have such a treasure trove of decorative items that I collected while in highschool. A set of dramatic brass scales, mountains of sci-fi and horror paperbacks, random pictures, it goes on. I found my cherished book of Jacque Louis David paintings and the entire stash of prom and party dresses. Picture shoot for deviant art. YESS!! I can create a stock gallery from them too and become a model for other people to use in their own twisted fantasy works.

** As I was sitting here Luke's cell phone did a little buzz, beep thing and the overwhelming scent of primer spilled over me, I think because I used Dad's phone while I was painting earlier today. See, messed up genes. **