Bugs and boards
It was a beautiful warm day, so I spent the morning painting boards out on the back lawn.
The original idea was that the boards should be painted antique white but nature conspired against me.
There were these smallish black bugs and green insects with lacy wings, both of which thought these pristine white surfaces would make dandy landing pads. Then they discovered they, in whole or in part, were there to stay.
Now if they had all been green with lacy wings, I might have been tempted to let them stay stuck and tell any questioners that this was the latest in artistic rendering. However, those black bugs mixed in would give the show away.
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When I used to paint grain bins, I did not worry too much about bugs in the paint. You could cover them up with more paint. These boards, however, are destined for framing a door in the basement.
Twenty years from now when I get around to selling this house, I don’t want a prospective buyer trying to knock down the price because:
“I see you have a specimen from phylum lepidoptera in the doorframe.”
The University of Saskatchewan makes a big thing out of having fossils in the stone walls of its campus buildings but, I am sure some of you will remind me, bugs in the paint don’t cut it in that category.
So the insects get picked out of the wet paint and deposited on a piece of plywood.
Hmm. Now if I was to arrange the green lacy individuals in a circle around the black bugs perhaps I could sell it to the National Gallery for a million or so. It’s worth trying.
