They swear the humidity is only 34% at 78 degrees—but glug! I normally don’t sweat,–never have been able to sweat much, not since heat exhaustion (or was the cause of the heat exhaustion) way back at age 7 or 8—and several times since.<\/p>\n
You know me—Ms. Can’t-Take-Heat-above-72-Degrees. 78 while crawling around to reach bits of both bridges was a toasty warm, and the bucket hat I wore to try to keep paint off my hair was soaked all around the band—that’s got to be a first in the I-don’t-sweat annals.<\/p>\n
But I got the deck of the 12′ bridge and the deck, sides and rails of the 5′ bridge-let out front, and it’s a great improvement. I got it done in a sunny bit around noon, and it fairly sparkles, it’s so bright.<\/p>\n
We’re thinking of using the same Japanese red on the moon-gate, which is not real great wood, and could use some protection, though it’s a beautiful object—if we turn out not to like it red, we can always repaint it brown. <\/p>\n
One of the reasons we had to get the bridge deck painted is that protect-the-wood idea—we have water, and we don’t want a very difficult-to-replace bridge to fall apart; you don’t want something wooden or metal to fall apart, I guess you paint the daylights out of it every couple of years.<\/p>\n
I will say the Lowe’s paint-matching technology is super. We took in a bit of the original bridge scrap, painted and stored, and when I poured the last of the old paint and the first of the new paint into the same paint pan, you couldn’t see a difference, but the weathered red is now a very vivid red… They say they can take a bit of fabric under their color match scanner and deliver you paint to match, and within limits of reflectivity of original—I’d say they can do it.<\/p>\n
Yay me, anyway—got a shower, and cooled down with an iced coffee, and the job is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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