Black phoebe

We saw a bird we've never seen before in our yard today - a black phoebe. Pretty cool.

We started talking about having our house painted, but are wondering about the viability of the (probably asbestos) siding and wondering whether it is worth putting a coat of paint on it if it is going to have to be removed at some point. It's starting to crack in some places. I was looking online last night and saw that the lifespan of asbestos siding is "several decades" - ours is probably about 50 years old or so. After a while it deteriorates. You can apparently cover it over with something else like vinyl siding, but then you can end up with a mess because it will continue to crack and deteriorate underneath the new siding. Apparently you can't use vinyl siding in Davis anyway because it can't hold up to the sun here. I have to ask our neighbor, who has the same kind of siding and was the original owner of their house, whether our siding is original to the house or covered up something else like stucco.