Blow Drying Front Porch

I have been painting indoors for 2 weeks as our Erie weather just does not cooperate. My dining room table turned into my paint station. I rolled up the area rug and put it aside. My thought was that my oak floors are stripped but not refinished and the top of my dining room table needs to be refinished so what the heck. I put an old shower curtain over the top and painted the parts to the steps. I bought a box fan to help the drying process and set it on a chair facing the table. I finally got the stairs together a couple days ago and just completed drying the painted molding and put them on.

Yesterday was the first nice day I could work outside as Thanksgiving day, as nice as it was, was filled with other things. I scraped and painted the top of the porch where the stairs attach. I needed to do it before winter as the wood was exposed in a few places where the paint had chipped off.

The sun was out and it seemed to be going well when all of a sudden fog rolled in. I couldn't just leave wet paint there so I grabbed the blow dryer and an extension cord and spent my afternoon blow-drying the front part of the porch. What a waste of my time. Of all the things I could be doing I spent the foggy afternoon feeling pretty silly with that blow dryer (a few honks and shaking heads from passing cars). It took forever but it worked. I have tried the blow-drying method a couple of times before when I get caught waiting too long to get ready for winter. It has successfully dried caulking with snow flakes falling from the sky.