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For the last few years, we've spent a few weeks each summer paving something - a patio, walkways, or - last year - digging up the patio to lay pipe. We bought more brick this summer, in order to lay down even more walkways (soon I won't have any grass to cut - just weeds to burn between bricks). However, the bricking project was placed on hold the wife decided that we needed to paint the kitchen. Billions of little paint chips later, we had two colors picked out. No simple monochrome job for my wife - two tone with a wallpaper border.

The taping alone took a day (have you ever looked at your kitchen and considered the pre-paint taping job? Makes me wish I had forked over the money for a paint job by the builder). Now it's mostly done - the border still has to go up, but the painting itself is all done. Then there's the cleanup, and bringing back in all the stuff we moved out. Paving stones might actually be less work...