Giving the Old Girl a facelift

For the last several days, Stu has been busy working on painting the trim, dormers, and window frames on the outside of our house. He painted the whole thing about 15 years ago, but as the main color seems to be doing fine, just the eaves and around the windows needed help.
I have to say that I am not as good at climbing ladders and having good balance as I used to be.
Stu has been up and down a very bendy large ladder at the top of our house, and I keep having visions of him falling and breaking body parts, etc.
So one day, Jared came over and helped do some of the high eave painting. I felt much more comfortable having him here. If Stu fell off the ladder, or it started falling, I (the little weak thing that I am  :) couldn't do anything about it. I couldn't catch him, or the ladder, so Jared was much appreciated. They also bought a new toy to share, a paint sprayer. Much easier than painting by hand!
Our house does look much better. My job is to clean windows and paint the ground floor window frames.
Oh, and the bees.....Under most eaves and especially the dormers, were multiple bee nests. Mostly
paper wasps and hornets.
I swell up from stings, but Stu doesn't...lucky him.
He used the better part of 3 cans of spray, and still had a run in with a couple of particularly persistently alive bees.

So, we are doing that, and also putting up wood for the winter. Stu feels good about our progress so far this summer. It has been a weird summer, as we haven't had any rain since the middle of June.
yellow grass everywhere, oh well!
(notice Stu as a ghost...paint all over!)