Can I Paint Your House?

Sometimes I feel like Tom Sawyer (or is it Huckleberry Finn?). If we're clever, we can finagle other people into painting our house for us.

And by "paint" I mean "paint a picture of it." Not quite the same thing. But we've had a handful of people over the years either offer to draw/paint a picture of the house, or actually make a painting and then show it to us.

Sometimes we even get them for free. A few years ago, a professional photographer took a picture of the house around Christmastime and then gave us a great big print of it for free. Other times, strangers have showed up at the door and handed us framed prints, paintings, or photos and said, "Here. Better it should sit in your attic than mine." A couple of these are hanging on the walls downstairs. Others sit in a closet.

Today was another day like that. A nice lady showed up at the door and offered to sell us her sister's original painting of the house. You can see it here, if you're interested. She was pleasant enough, but we really weren't in the market for a painting, so we took her information and left it at that.

Now, if she wanted to paint the outside, or redo the roof, or fix some shingles, we might be interested...