My funny paint story:
Dad (rip) worked at Sears and he always bought paint on clearance. Sears would mix paint for someone, they didn't like the color and they'd mark it down. Most paint he would pay 50 cents a gallon for. At home it wasn't unusual to see 20 gallons, a mixture of gloss, semi, flat, exterior or interior...Dad didn't care...it was CHEAP!

I came home one day he had mixed a whole bunch together...and the final color was this weird flesh-like PINK!

He hauls it down to our lake and mixed it with a boat oar...then painted both oars, the john boat and boathouse. The barrel was in back of Grandad's trailer he pulled with his Farmall tractor and at the house painted trailer AND Farmall with a 3" brush.

I knew Dad had been up to something because as I turned into the driveway even the mailbox was pink!

I was amazed because he had used up all that paint painting everything in site...the well house, wheelbarrow, mower, tractor attachments...everything...even the cinder block barbecue grill in the backyard was now pink, as well as rakes, shovels...anything he got his hands on.
When Grandad bought the farm in 1939 he named it "Homecrest" so I told Dad well you finally did it. Everything is Homecrest PINK!
