Dog wash and spaghetti

Lorena was over with the girls getting her dry clothes and decided to give her two dogs a bath. She asked if Coyota needed one too. I've been brushing her a lot but she was overdue for a bath. I usually tie her up but Lorena didn't want to. Coyota was very patient.

Clean dog

While they washed I vacuumed the pool for use

Nahima acting silly

Spaghetti

I made way too much spaghetti so they took some home to the family. I still have a large bowl of cold pasta and am going to have to get creative. Lorena suggested with Mayo but I don't think so.

How to clean a paint roller

The only decent way to clean a paint roller without having a spinner which I can't find here and always forget to bring down. This guy says it dries it as well and with a really good spin it's kinda dry .... but better to just switch rollers.

So there was no street pressure water yesterday so the roller sat in a bucket until this morning when we got pressure back. Tinaco gravity water pressure just won't do it.

A spinner that I always forget

Has a corkscrew action like those old timey toy tops

Necessary improvments

My front sidewalk was in need of some help. Not that it wasn't well built but we just didn't think of everything. Three downspouts dump water on it causing erosion, ants build caves under it, chickens excavate the edges looking for bugs .... and then there's the kids who like the sidewalk and the dirt in front of it. I told Hugo generally what I wanted and let him make the design decisions. I like what he came up with. A little more on the driveway to go.

Then there is my north wall.  Because someday (maybe never) there will be a house up against that wall I didn't worry too much about the stucco and it is pretty sloppy and very ruff. I also cut corners on properly sealing and painting it. Shoe had a couple 5 gallon buckets of cheap paint that was old so I mixed that with a little sealer and some decent paint but not semi-gloss. I'll only paint with semi-gloss from now on.  

So I figured I'd clean it up, primer a few areas and let Hugo go at it with a roller. Turns out I have wire brushed and/or cleaned with Clorox almost the whole wall. Also it's so ruff that doing a good job with a roller is almost impossible and you can't see your holidays 10-12 feet above you.  I will end up painting that whole 20x4 meter wall with a brush. Plenty of other painting for Hugo.

The second sidewalk

North wall mostly painted - sealed the bottom section today

20 meters by 4 high