In June of 2015 Duwan led a volunteer project to paint a Cabbagetown neighbor’s house. It was a major success! Tons of people came out to paint and a neighbor and friend has one less worry on her plate. Please enjoy the pictures. All pictures are click to enlarge. If you have a slow connect, let the page fully load and then when you click on any picture they should all open in a slide show.
Front view before.
Back view before.
Back view before.
Side view before.
Moving the Coca Cola cooler.
Putting rollers under the Coca Cola cooler to move it across the porch.
Moving the Coca Cola cooler.
Moving the Coca Cola cooler off the porch.
Almost there.
Got it!
Day 1: starting to scrape in the early morning light.
Day 1: Emily scraping.
Day 1: Holly scrapes low.
Day 1: Orion gets under those boards.
Day 1: An army of scrapers.
Day 1: Jeanne, Duwan, and Emily scrape.
Day 1: Lisa enjoying her scraping!
Day 1: Scraping around the backside.
Day 1: Bertha starts lunch.
Day 1: Bertha cooks while volunteers scrape.
Day 1: Karen likes scraping too!
Day 1: Jeanne starts work on the screen door.
Day 1: Cyndi, Tom, Ty, and Emily attack the front.
Day 1: Maricio watches the progress.
Day 1: Lunch!
Day 1: Hamburgers with all the fixings.
Day 1: Lunch.
Day 1: Scraping is done, time for priming.
Day 1: Karen primes.
Day 1: Paul does a caulking demonstration.
Day 1: Ty shows off his caulk gun.
Day 1: Jeanne demonstrates how to caulk in nails.
Day 1: Greg and Jeanne work on the screen door.
Day 1: Relaxing with a few beers after a hard day’s work.
Day 2: Bertha starts painting blue.
Day 2: Holly starts the red on the windows.
Day 2: Starting to put the color on!
Day 2: Holly, Sandy, and Greg hard at work.
Day 2: JoAnne, Ro, Edward, Holly, and Jeanne hard at work.
Day 2: Sandy and Greg working on the front.
Day 2: View from a ladder.
Day 2: Greg working on the blue.
Day 2: Sandy painting blue.
Day 2: Holly works on a window on the back.
Day 2: Blue top to bottom.
Day 2: Karen gets under the eaves.
Day 2: Chavez works on replacing boards.
Day 3: A broken leg doesn’t keep Bill away from helping Bertha.
Day 3: Lynne and Sandy start working on the yellow.
Day 3: Dan finishes up the blue.
Day 3: Applying yellow on the back.
Day 3: Paul works on the shutters while Teresa and JoAnne work on the walls.
Day 3: Megan puts some yellow on the foundation.
Day 3: Paul puts a sealer on the front door.
Day 3: Adam delivers food for lunch.
Day 3: Paul paints the shutters.
Day 3: Kyle works on the roof.
Day 3: Lunch time! Mikel serves Greg a veggie burger.
Day 3: The second shifts starts. Dan works through lunch.
Day 3: Debbie working on the yellow.
Day 3: The morning shift eats lunch.
Day 3: Lunch.
Day 3: After lunch everyone gets back to the yellow.
Day 3: Painting down the south side of the house.
Day 3: Kyle with a blue eye.
Day 3: Beer time for the end of a great day!
Day 3: Hanging with good neighbors and friends.
Day 3: Kyle sharing the love with Bertha.
Day 4: Paul pressure washes the pergola.
Day 4: Melody, Ro, and Emanuella start priming the porch.
Day 4: Thaddeus and John scrape the porch.
Day 4: Emanuella priming.
Dau 4: John and Thaddeus prime.
Day 4: Duwan and Ro start putting on the red.
Day 5: Julie primes the arch.
Day 5: Doing touch up work.
Day 5: The painting army at work.
Day 5: David and Peter on the roof.
Day 5: View from the roof.
Day 5: That peak is steep!
Day 5: Nick touches up yellow.
Day 5: Karin has fun painting a chair.
Day 5: Julie and David put the white top coat on the pergola.
Day 5: Greg and JoAnne start the edging in of the porch.
Day 5: Chavez does some woodworking.
Day 5: Paul and Holly take a moment to chat.
Day 5: Alicia put a fresh coat of red on the door.
Day 5: Karen, Wayne, and Jeanne help prepare lunch.
Day 5: Jeanne shucks corn.
Day 5: Greg and Karin hang the screen door.
Day 5: Bertha, Karen, and Alicia get the buffet table ready.
Day 5: Chavez works on the window sill.
Day 5: Orion paints.
Day 5: Jennifer washes buckets while Edward paints.
Day 5: Katherine puts some red on the deck.
Day 5: Greg takes the tape off of the mailbox revealing the “You are Here” bumper sticker.
Day 5: Orion calls everyone to lunch.
Day 5: The buffet line.
Day 5: The buffet line.
Day 5: Alicia and Kristy get a beer.
Day 5: Bertha and her mom.
Day 5: Alicia, Holly, Sandy, Suzanne, and Karin.
Day 5: Katherine, Edward, Peter, and JoAnne.
Day 5: Paul, Bill, Wayne, Orion, Adam, Kristy, and Conner.
Day 5: Bertha with her parents.
Day 5: Putting some red on the deck.
Day 5: Putting more red on the deck.
Day 5: Can you spot the three Berthas?
