Painting the Town

On site at the ranch, there were a lot of other properties other than the one I was specifically working and living on. One of these was the Borge house, and my team was asked to work there to help assist with one single job: painting. It sounds like a light job, just touch up and paint. However, don't be fooled. We were not just asked to paint one thing and touch up a few spots. No, we were asked to paint  the fence, barn, house, shed, smaller house, and corral. Each was a new task in itself, and let me say I am quite the painter now. Maybe even close to a professional painter if there is such a thing!

We had our team of eight, and split up four and four at each end of the corral. Two on each side of the fence, we painted away! We painted the three boards, including the tops and bottoms. The paint is a specific paint that is very oily and very strong in smell in which IZ uses for all its corrals, feeding troughs, buildings and barns. It is a rustic red orange color. The hard part with this specific paint is that it needs three coats total. The base, then a different can called: 2, 3. 

Painting the whole corral took half the day. We also painted the barn, the small house and the shed. This same day we also started taping the windows of the bigger house. Painting in the heat all day long was quite tiring in its own way! It was good to mix up the work days by having a paint day in the middle of the week, but we were all ready to go back to Beaver Creek IZ after this day!