Caulk cock up

Yesterday I got quite a bit done around the house -- including quite a bit more gardening than I had intended. I managed to scratch my right hand very prettily in the raspberries wrestling with the drip hose, and pretty soon I was pruning every bush in sight in revenge. (Well, actually because once I started tying the damned spineless gladiolas to stakes I noticed that every bush in the yard had responded to the recent heatwave by growing like ape.)

Then I painted the new board on the front porch (replacing one that rotted) which I had caulked last weekend. I discovered that the caulk I used doesn't take paint. Paint recoils from the caulk, in fact. Was I vexed? Hm. Furious is probably more like it, once I got over being stunned and disbelieving. Does anybody know if there's something you can perhaps spray on such caulk that would allow the paint to stick? Otherwise I guess I'm doomed to rip the caulk out again somehow. Bloody fricking hell. Maybe I'll just burn the porch to the ground instead.

Oh well. I also got the housebills up to date and swept fallen cherries off the walk. And over the course of the day I applied water to various thirsty plants with my battered old two-gallon watering can. Today I should work on some fanac that I've been pushing off for too long. I'm going to forget about the caulk up until next weekend. Blast it!