This is the view out our front door right now:

And the view out the back door matches.. we’re stuck in side.. no way out!

Ok.. granted..its just plastic held on by masking tape.. the outside of the house is being painted today… and the people doing the painting were nice enough to come by, offer us $10.00 to let them hook their power-washer up to our water faucet.. and then they went and trapped us inside..

They appear to have neglected to tell us that if we were in the house when they taped it up.. we’d be stuck in it (for..over 3 hours now..and no sign of them finishing anytime soon) or..that if we happened to not be home when they taped it up…that’d we be unable to get into our house…

Good thing I’ve got the day off.. I’m not sure work would understand me calling in ‘trapped in the house with no way to escape”