Kinda Like A Turtle

Have you ever gone into a project thinking it would take about, like, 10 hours total? (Cuz, seriously, how long could it take to scrape a  few layers of gazillion year-old paint off of a gazillion year old porch?  I mean, so much of it is practically  BEGGING to be scraped off.) Aaaah….. you’ve got to appreciate the positive thinking one has at the beginning of a new makeover project. (Positive or Delusional, me thinks more delusional) I wanted to paint my porch, but wanted do it the “right way,” by taking the existing paint off first. So I bought some environmentally paint stripper. (One layer of the 5 or 6 came up.) Desperate times call for desperate measures. I had to bring in the big dogs and bought some seriously hardcore, heavy-duty, environmentally unfriendly paint stripper.  ( It eats through up to 15 layers of paint, ya know!) One more layer pulled up. Other areas bubbled up.  Mostly, the paint just got gummy. (Eats through 15 layers ...