October Wind

            
                                           Roofing took till Tuesday to finish. 

                                

 

 

     The garage took most of Monday to finish.  As we began to work on the shed, I realized I had mismeasured and the tin pieces lacked eight inches of being big enough to cover.  That late in the day, I needed time to think about what to do.

     What we did was cut 10 inch pieces off a scrap piece and extended the top of the sheets.  It doesn’t look too bad because the roof cap nearly covers the splice.  Clean up and put stuff away, including a trip to the landfill with the dead shingles.

     

    Back to soffiting.

 

     The advantages of doing soffit and fascia over roofing:  much closer to the ground, not near as much time spent hanging on, not so much bending over.

     Disadvantages:  Your work is all overhead.  Hands overhead all day wears you out.  Both jobs give you a good feeling about making things look better.  And then, I got a break on Thursday.

 

 

     If 50 mile per hour winds can be called a break.  Here the dust kicks up around a stock watering tank where there is no grass due to heavy foot traffic.

     By noon, visibility was limited by dust. Still not as bad as Dust Bowl days--no wet sheets over doors and windows necessary.
       Handling twelve-foot sheets of soffit and eight foot pieces of fascia in that wind was out of the question.   I spent most of the day in the garage bending metal into fascia. 

    Back to normal on Friday and Saturday.  A couple more days should finish the soffit job.

  The Goodwife returned from her Hawaii trip Thursday night—blew in with the wind so to speak.  So things are returning to normal on the domestic scene, too.

    We are invited to a ribbon cutting ceremony at the wind farm in a week.  I wonder if they’ll have an open house and allow us to take a trip up to the top of a tower.  Probably not.  Maybe they will offer that trip as a door prize for one lucky person.