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2001-10-20 - 2:51 p.m.
Up on the roof

Owwwww. Ow. Owie ow.

Today was roofing day. Well, only partly. Today was tear off day. I think tomorrow will be new sheathing and shingles day.

Oww. Owie.

We're working on Beloved's breezeway. (thank god that's all it is!) It had at least three layers of shingles on it, with all the attendant nails. He did most of the hard work, but I was in there with the pry bar and my gloves (eye protection too, of course), ripping and pulling. I think there were a billion nails. And once the shingles came off...yikes. The boards that make up the decking for this thing....as Beloved said "It's a roof kit, it's a puzzle". Boards of every shape and type...one hunk of painted wainscoating, a couple that looked like they started out as parts of furniture...nothing standard. It really looks like a puzzle. I said I thought that whoever built it must have survived the Depression, because that's the generation of folks who saved and reused EVERYTHING. (The cabinets in his garage are built from packing crates from GE..complete with the logo still on them) Some of the boards are rotted and water damaged, so we will be replacing them with regular old plywood.

I tell you, the joys of an older house. His is postwar, mine is from 1926. And yep, when you dive into home improvemend projects in one of these babies, you will inevitably utter "what the HELL is this? What were they thinking?" at least once.

Ow. Owie ow.

Now I must shower and go to work. Until 10:30 or so. THEN we're supposed to put in an appearance at a bowling alley for a work function of his. Hyeah. Like we'll still be ambulatory at that point.

Ow.

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