Roof...roof...roof

Friday, July 13, 2007

It is finished! Whew, finally after the week's worth of banging and mess the roof is on the house and garage. It looks nice!!! Can a roof 'look nice'??!! I am just not sure. I think roof issue are mainly about FUNCTION. We had a huge storm and the house DID NOT LEAK...that is my idea of a good roof. Anyhow, here are some photos to give you an idea of the process and the finished product. I hope this means only one or two more little events/projects for the summer. Who knows!!! Not next week...that is time to relax with all of you!!!

90+90 by 11am

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

What a morning!! Today was the first day of the roof, roof, roofing. It was hot and humid to begin at 7am (about 70 degrees and 68% humidity). By 11am, the weather really took it toll on the men up on the roof. The temp was 90 degrees and the humidity was 90%!!! They worked only 4.5 hours today and looked completely overheated by the time they rolled off the roof. A total of 1/4 of the roof now has new shingles...that is of the HOUSE... Yes, our 2 day job (house and garage) is turning into a much longer ordeal...temps and humidity are making it pretty intense. Tomorrow they say more of the same, with a break on Thursday - but then some rain. As you can see, the back of the house still has all of the old shingles and the front has a blue tarp on the other half of the front! Wonderful, this is an interesting experience.

Last day under THIS ROOF!!

Monday, July 9, 2007

It is now time to say good-bye to the OLD ROOF. Tomorrow the roofers come to bring the house a new top. I am not sure what this will mean in terms of noise, dog anxiety and nails in the pool...but, I guess we will just wait and see. So, for those of you who cannot remember the house and the current roof - here you go. The garage and the house will get a new style shingle, a new 'architectural' roof vent and some other fancy roofer-ish thingy type stuff!! Can you tell that I don't know almost anything about roof tops?? Well, I will keep you all posted.

Mid-Summer Progress

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Hello and Happy 4th of July!!

I hope that the summer is going well for all of my family and friends. After many, many hours of loving labour, the back yard and gardens are coming along. I thought that it was time to show off some of the fun things that have been accomplished the first half of this summer. David...I hope that you are proud of the flowers and DAD...check out those bean and tomato plants...not bad for an old child farmer from the Midwest!!!

Here is the flower garden that was originally TEN yew bushes - all of which were dug out, the crushed rock ground cover moved away and then planted with perennials and annuals.

I thought that you might like a closer look at some of the roses (for MOM), the viola flowers and an asclepsia bush (well, it will become a bush after a few years). The flowers are just vibrant and wonderful!

There were some 'construction' things to manage as well. The wall was created to HIDE the filter and other pool things. It was a HUGE fence before that just stuck out and was a terrible eye-sore!! Now, it looks more a part of the landscape. Next summer there will be more potted annuals on the ground and on the newly painted (and built) railing.

Just a final bit of the garden. I could not forget my ROOTS and needed to build a structure that would contain my vegie garden. Since the cost of vegies is SO high in CT, I decided to plant many plants including sweet peas, tri-colored beans, squash (YES.. Sharron I did it), lettuce, radishes and many varied tomato plants. As you can see, we are already eating the beans and peas with the green tomatoes soon to be ripened. My neighbor is waiting for the garden to be in full fruit - he said that he has brown thumbs.... sorry to hear that bit of information!!! He is my friend who I only know from the neck up, as he peers over the fence to chat each day as I work in the yard!!!

So, this is the update on the progress. Only a few more things this summer to tackle and then I am floating in the pool and getting a tan. Or it will be time for school to restart!!! Not sure which. Hugs to all and Happy Independence Day!!! Miss you guys!!