The painters are here to fix the brilliant mistakes of the last painters (who did their evil deeds prior to our purchase of this house) who cleverly painted LATEX over OIL BASED paint. For those of you who didn't know - BAD IDEA.

All the latex peels up and falls off. Generally in really hard to reach places, because that is some sort of painterly rule, isn't it?

In a demonstration of just HOW hard these places are to reach, yes, that's our painter, and yes, he DOES have the tallest ladder money can buy. And yes, that ladder can ONLY reach the top of our house if he - ohmigod - puts the ladder on the ROOF of his van.

I'm pretty sure this isn't OSHA approved.