So I stained my log home today 4 hours.
I feel like I pitched 18 innings, throwing nothing but fastballs. But, worse than that are my fingers that are doing their own thing....no attention paid to Central Command.
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In mid-January I get max solar penetration into my house. 
I'm in the painting zone. Hope the hand painting holds out!
Our outside logs are definitely due to be restained, but we've been working really hard on the inside. Finally getting up some interior walls and doors (cedar, from our local Amish cedar mill), very exciting! I'm finishing all that with linseed oil. We bought it as a shell 8 years ago, and its always a work in progress. Better now that we both retired.
As for the finger work, I get to where I can only hold the brush in a fist. Too much carpal tunnel. Would that help? Have you ever used a sprayer to do it?
