One item on my summer to-do list is to repaint the ceiling in one of the showers. Why? There’s some stain that we have no idea what it is or how it got there, can’t get rid of it, and are tired of. So our simplified solution is fairly straightforward: paint over it with multiple coats.

Taping up the edges and protecting the rest with plastic, though, took longer than all the painting (for all coats) combined will likely take. And the best part: all the plastic, at this point, was unnecessary because I didn’t have a single drop.

Of course, if I took out the plastic…