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Painting the Sleepout

January 3, 2017 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

I have a son who is at his best when he has a big project underway. He thrives on working toward a goal, day after day. Right now, he’s building a moveable chicken pen out of lumber someone gave the boys. He’s been at it for several days, and has several more days of work on it. He can’t stand to be at loose ends.

While Esther was gone to America for two weeks, Mr. Diligence had a different project. He had actually wanted to do it last year while she was gone for six weeks, but didn’t get at it then. He’s now 11 years old, though, and able to do even more than he was last year. He set himself the goal of scraping and painting her entire sleepout before she got home this year! He didn’t quite meet the goal; the scraping turned out to be a lot harder than he thought. He got two walls done, though! Then, he ran out of paint. It’s going to be very hard to match those walls with what he finds at the dump for free, but at least those two look good.

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Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Boys, Canterbury, Cheviot, Miller Street house

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  1. chickenscratching says

    January 4, 2017 at 7:09 am

    That’s an impressive project for someone his age! Looks nice!

    Reply
    • NZ Filbruns says

      January 4, 2017 at 7:39 am

      It would be an impressive project for me! I don’t do that kind of thing, so I’m very impressed with my son.

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