Foiled

Today’s project was repainting the frame on the metal art in the family room. I ran into a couple of roadblocks, though, so the reveal will have to wait a day or three.

I took the piece down and unscrewed the metal from the frame. I think that part was the big hurdle to me starting this before. There are eight little screws that hold it together at weird angles, and they’re hard to take out.

A light sanding took the sheen off the old paint and should have prepared it for the new paint. Hurdle #1: the paint was doing some weird stuff. It wasn’t covering very well, and seemed really, really thin for black paint. I let it dry for a bit and plan to give it another couple of coats. I had planned to do that when I got back from this afternoon’s errands.

However, after three stops and a trunk and backseat full of groceries, my car died again in the lot at Heinen’s.

Again. Yes. Two weeks ago, it died in the bank parking lot. I had the battery replaced, and when they checked everything else out, they said it was fine.

Apparently not.

Hurdle #2.

I managed to get it started after a couple dozen tries and drove it straight to the shop. John had to come get me and all of the groceries there. By the time we were done with all that, I was out of steam for the day.

Thus, this project is going to take a bit more time than originally planned.

I’m still counting it as a win, though, since it was substantially started.