My project for this wonderful spring morning is repainting a windowsill.

Um, hrmm. Did I say "repaint"? Sorry, I apparently mean "replace". Crap.

Actually, it's not so bad. I've mentioned before that my house has four layers of siding stacked onto it. At some point, this meant the windowsills needed to be extended to stick out past the siding. So the bit in need of replacement is a 2x2 sill extender that was rather poorly grafted onto the existing sill. (Judging by the face of the old sill, my house at one point had green trim instead of white.) I suppose that, if I wanted to do this right/best, I'd take out the piece underneath and put in one single sill, so that I don't have to go through my current process all over again in a few years.

OTOH, my master plan involves replacing this window in a few years anyways, so I think that today I'm going to not go through the rigmarole of extracting the entire sill. (Said "plans" involve replacing the lousy wallside window with a french-door style window opening onto a second story deck / growing platform atop the front/south porch, if you must know...Phase 2 is to enclose this deck as a second story greenhouse, but I know only too well the variance hell I'll have to go through.)