The past couple of days...

Have been a veritable flurry of activity. I scraped about 1/10th of the porch. That's a lot when you realize this is the paint on my porch:
At least three layers, at least two of which are heavy-duty exterior paint. Not heavy duty enough, because this is what I'm tackling before I can paint anything:

At the rate I'm going (couple of hours, most days), it should be done by early next week. If the weather holds, I can paint all at once. And maybe even put a coat of the new blue (very similar to the old blue) on the front shingles. You know, the ones that needs painting the least.

Meanwhile, inside... I don't know how the hell this happened: