I don't really have anything to add to this video.
You can mix paint with a drill press, but set it to the lowest speed first.
One of my friends told me that the snake facts are a little dark. Well, that's life. Nature is like war. In constant fear of violent death, life is nasty, brutish, and short. To paraphrase Hobbes.
And in case you wondered, yeah, one of those snakes ate those baby birds. Probably. They were there and then there was a big storm and they were gone.
I had the bright idea to paste the text of the subtitles into the blog after the torture that was the subtitles for Episode 6. Might as well go back and add that to the other blog pages since I do carefully transcribe all of these things.
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This is my shed and environs in 2005. This place was
abandoned in 1984 when the house burned down.
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The shed was fine, but my brother and I were the only ones
that cared about it and we had to go to college.
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So it just sat there for 20 years. I asked my uncle to let
me help when he wanted to set a prescribed fire on this
hill,
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but the decision to burn is entirely weather dependent
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There just isn’t time for somebody to drive down from
Atlanta, so the shed caught fire a little bit
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It is largely steel though, so it only burned up the wood
studs in one corner and ruined the wiring and some roof
insulation
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I had to take the corrugated panels off one door and
dismantle the angle iron frame to prop up the damaged
corner
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The overhead wiring went from the shed to the well house
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The metal building around the well tank was completely
burned out.
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The power distribution panel was ruined
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It's a good lesson in metal buildings though. The sheet
metal is contributing a lot to the system, structurally
speaking.
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Even with no framing the well house stood there fine, for a
year or more.
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I had to back out all the stitch screws with my cordless
impact driver to get the building apart
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The packrats had to move out.
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I dragged the metal panels around behind the old slab and
piled it up next to the other burned up metal detritus from
the house fire.
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A few months later when I had an idea to use metal panels
for a landscaping project and went to get some I found a
surprise cottonmouth moccasin
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Sometimes I think about all the abandoned corrugated sheet
metal in the world and wonder what percentage is hiding a
snake?
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In the southwest corner of the shed my dad had installed
fiberglass insulation and particleboard walls
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I still use the pressure treated 2x6 workbench that was
mounted on the west wall and the heavy duty table that holds
my vise.
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There were some big particleboard cabinets on the south wall
that I removed with a shovel before I had lighting to take
photos of it
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But the most interesting thing in the shed was almost an
entire high school gymnasium worth of maple flooring
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The high school where my cousin’s wife worked had a plumbing
disaster one summer that flooded the gym
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The floor buckled so they scooped up the whole thing with a
forklift and dumped it on the side of the road
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My cousin made multiple trips with a big flatbed trailer and
collected it and stacked it with stickers in the shed
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After it dried out he built himself a 16’x16’ workshop with
some of it. But there was still this much left
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He said I could use some to build my house. So I only fixed
the shed as much as necessary to get on to the house project
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I pulled off the rake flashing and the pole and weatherhead
for the defunct power. I got a new piece of rake flashing
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Then I built my tiny house on weekends. I didn’t get back to
the shed until 2008
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I got laid off from my job like everybody else that year.
The first thing I did with my freedom was paint the shed
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I bought a 5 gallon bucket of Oops paint for $15 years ago
thinking I would paint the roof of the shed
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but I kept missing the winter window of opportunity where
it’s not too hot and not too cold but before the pine pollen
drops
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So I decided to use it to paint the wall where Ally Mo goes.
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Then I can put the trailer back and paint the rest of the
shed next winter
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But that paint has been sitting around a while. How am I
going to stir it up?
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I bought a stirring paddle back in the ‘90s without
realizing I didn’t actually have a tool that could turn it.
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But now I have one!
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When I washed the first half of this wall in Episode 3 I
missed two spots
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So I need to scrub those before I paint
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This is a little black racer. It's periscoping! That's a
hunting behavior
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Racers eat mice, birds, frogs and lizards
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Despite their scientific name, Coluber constrictor, they
don't squeeze their prey to death. They eat it alive
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Periscoping is not very effective as a strategy against
predators. Hawks definitely eat snakes like this
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Racers only come out in the daytime though, so at least they
lower their risk of being eaten by owls, possums, and
bobcats
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At night they'll go in a stump hole or under the pine straw
if they can't find any corrugated metal
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I usually like to paint out of this container that some
nails came in
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But it's a little too small for this 3 1/2" brush so I can't
really use this
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So I'm going to use my big pail because it has a handle.
This is important later
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And then at the end of the day if there's still paint in it
when I'm too tired to paint anymore
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I'm gonna put the whole thing in here. Voila
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So that's the plan. Let's see if we can get some paint out
of here into there
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Look at this rough green snake!
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It periscopes too! It is in the same family as the black
racer
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But these guys stay a lot smaller and they eat
invertebrates, like insects and spiders
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I'm gonna attempt to fix this bullet hole
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It's extremely hard to bend
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I'm used to aluminum
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Heavy gauge industrial steel don't play
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I shoulda put my gloves on
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This is why I always wear gloves. And then I forgot to put
them on and now I've cut myself
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And now with gloves, waiting for blood to come through this
knuckle
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Now I'm going to go on the inside with another washer and a
nut
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And see if I can tighten this up without it falling out
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I put mastic on here not really to seal it but just so it
doesn't fall out of the hole
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I would like it tighter
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Dammit, I got blood on my shed
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Old skin, y'all. It's thin and cuts so easiily
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Around these parts we call this a White Oak Snake
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They are active at night and are good climbers, as
demonstrated by this one
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exploring the rain gutter and roof of my lab
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These snakes eat mice, lizards, frogs, and lots of eggs and
baby birds
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This one is probably hunting the squirrel tree frogs that
like to warm their bellies on the aluminum
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It's hard to tell here close to the shed, but it's become
extremely smokey
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I have to stop painting now because it's hard to breathe
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When you can get a long view it's quite smokey
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I can't complain because my neighbors have to breathe my
smoke when I burn
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I have to breathe theirs when they burn. But I can go in the
house and work on something else
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Hi, my name is Barbara. I'm a blank builder and a blogger
and I'm on a mission to rebuild and repurpose this
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this 71 year old aircraft construction aluminum trailer
home, Ally Mo
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Well today is April 1, 2020. March, what the hell?!
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It's a pretty day for painting, so I'm gonna get on that
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My shed painting project got greatly delayed in March by
smoke and hot weather
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And my niece decided to get married at my house. I had 4
days notice to empty my lab and my house
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I kinda got out of order painting my shed
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I wanted to have timelapse of painting the whole thing and
then a very satisfying next step and the next step
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But I had to sorta skip ahead and trace my design on the end
of the shed before I finished painting the whole wall
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Because I had to return the projector and laptop that I
borrowed
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So I'm gonna finish today. I'm going to see if I can.
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I'm feeling pretty good, but my back has really been killing
me
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I figured out the secret though. Caffeine.
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Lots and lots of caffeine. I do way better with lots and
lots of caffeine
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Well that's done. I ran out of paint. I still need to paint
the rake flashing
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But I'll do that. I can use a smaller brush but I have to
open up the whole 5 gallons and stir it up. And my brush was
getting all gummy
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You know what? Fuck it. I got light. I'm gonna do this right
now.
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It's a corn snake! I love these guys!
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Of all the colubrids in my yard, this is the one most likely
to go in the shed and eat mice
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So if I had to pick a favorite, this is the one
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Corn snakes are not strictly daytime snakes like black
racers. I see them after dark a lot
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Here's a flash photo of one I saw scoot into the shed as I
was putting away my tools from working on my trench
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Bon appétit, mon ami serpent! Bon appétit
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Is this the same one?
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Nobody knows
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Corn snakes are common in all the sandy habitats of the
southeast portion of America, including in South Florida
where my brother lives
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I got an email one time from Harry when his daughters were
little that said, "Can you find Kara's pet rat, Tickle, in
this photo?"
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Oh no! Poor Tickle!
Poor Kara!
Poor Harry!
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Harry said the corn snake came through a hole in the screen
enclosure and got in the cage with Baby and Tickle, Brenna
and Kara's pet rats
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It ate Tickle and then couldn't fit out the hole anymore.
Harry had to catch it and put it outside
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That was about an 8 ounce snake that ate a 12 ounce rat
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I've got this stick with a squash ball. A 35 year old squash
ball on the end
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that I want to use as a mahl stick, something painters use
to hold their hand steady
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It used to have some masking tape fletching on it
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So I'm going to cover that up. It's a little sticky.
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And I'm also going to try to make a holder for my paint cup
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I saved this armature wire from my niece's flower
arrangements from her wedding.
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I'm gonna see if I can reuse this
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This foam came out of a boat seat cushion
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This would work better if this had a little notch in it
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I can hear voices? It's a little disconcerting
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The voices are the tower workers on the cell phone tower
across the road from me
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It's so quiet out here and they're so high up that I can
hear them from a half a mile away
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Nice
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Now while I've been making my mahl stick it's gotten all
fucking smokey
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How am I supposed to work outside when it's smokey like this
every day?!
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Can't they take one day off from burning?!
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I'm gonna do art today. Despite the smoke
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Because of the pandemic I haven't been able to go to Home
Depot to buy a fresh quart of high gloss black paint
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that I would prefer to use for this project
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But I have this. A gallon of... most of a gallon of Behr
premium semi-gloss exterior house paint
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Which is a dark green color I understand?
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My friend that loaned me the projector gave me this when I
returned the projector
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He put it outside and I swapped it for the projector and the
laptop
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So it's old? It was from the previous tenant. It was the
color of his apartment that I painted over
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So I'm kinda scared. But I'm gonna crack this open and see
what it smells like
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I also haven't got any fresh paint sticks
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I think he keeps this by his dryer. It's got lint all over
it
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Wow, that is really full! I don't think they used any of
this!
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OK, so here's my project. Now I want to address this smeary
mess
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I have a... in this plastic bag.... a little piece of paper
towel and dish soap
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I want to see if I can kind of clean up this smeary place
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Where the pencil smeared
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I wanna see what happens. This is just wet with water
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I wanna know if I can clean up pencil lines after the fact
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Or if I'm going to have to paint over it
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I saved out some paint in one of my little containers so I
that I can touch up the edges
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But it will leave brush marks that would not be there if I
can just wipe it off with soap
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Not bad. That's a possibility anyway
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I think I'll just wait and see how it goes. I can clean that
up at the end after I let it dry a day
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I can clean all these little places
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Now one thing I need to remember. My glasses on
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Oh whaaa?! Yeah, that's way better
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I've got some paint brushes to choose from
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This is one of my favorite brushes, but it's a little wide
for some of these places
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This one is a maybe a little bit small. I don't know, this
one might be good though.
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I like how stiff it is. It's not going to put down much
paint though
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This is a brand new brush I've never used before. I just
opened it. I'm not crazy about how the bristles are poking
out
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This one might be a little higher quality. I think I'll
start small and work up
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And I just paint
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Oh, it's going to be hard to get coverage
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I can get the edges pretty dark with this little brush.
Maybe that's what I should do
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Do the edges with this little brush, then go back with
another one
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I've gotten a pretty good start
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I've established a
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I've established that I want to... all my brush... my fill
in brush strokes
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Are gonna go up and down
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So after I do the edges
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I have to fill in. I'm going to try to make all my brush
strokes go this direction
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So that when I do a second coat
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Well, it's just what I decided to do. I don't really have a
rationalization
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I just, I hate random strokes everywhere
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So instead of random they're just going to be up and down
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I know a lot of people are scared of snakes, and some of
them are scary
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That moccasin at the beginning of this video, that was scary
to me
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And when I saw this baby Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake in
my footpath I got the telephoto lens
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But did you know some people are afraid of baby birds?
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Too right. That's revolting
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That's all for the Buck Rivet Report. Go buck yourself
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