Fiddling on the......

If I were a..... So, blogging's been slow, but I been working nonetheless. In fact, the weather was so glorious this week that Jennifer was inspired to take some pictures two mornings before she left for work. By that time the stress of hanging on the roof had gotten me punchy, I guess. Looking back on my last entry I see that I was pretty lazy and unclear about where we left off. So here's a shot that represents work we did in the prior week. By Tuesday of this week we had the first layer of plywood up (on the second half of the second floor roof) and were working on the endless details of the sides and bottom of the roof sandwich. We tarped it all up each night to keep things a little less slick in the am: Later in the week we were finally able to focus on the top layer of the sandwich: Besides a great view, the workspace boasted excellent cell phone coverage, even if it wasn't always convenient to pick up! By Friday the cap was looking complete:

and I was feeling VERY ready for some work on lower ground.

Too sloggy to blog!

It's been a hard coupla weeks. A few days were too cold to work on the roof. One day there was an am snow coat that lasted only a few hours, but not conducive to roof climbing. When we do work it's hard on me. A lot of up and down and up and down again.... But it's coming along and I hope that with the improving weather I'll be in the mood to document some more. We planted eight fruit trees weekend before this one. It was Jennifer's birthday gulag! We didn't take photos because we were so covered in mud we didn't dare touch the camera. The light here in the winter comes and gos fast but it changes the layers of view by the moment. As I've said before, I'm not a photographer who can convey it, but I keep trying! And here's my favorite end of the day look at the ridge, with a piece of roof thrown in for you! Will try to be on schedule and more informative next weekend! Ciao

Back at it.

Here's what the water fountain at the United Gates at Laguardia Airport looked like. You gotta love NYC! A better reason to love NYC: Ben warming up for his junior varsity game. He scored 10 points and landed 10 rebounds that day! Got back and got back at it. Second floor roof rafters. Heavy and hard on the lower back for an old lady who's been taking it easy, but as you can see, the weather complied. You can also see that Sebastian scratch coated (smoothed a cement coating on) parts of the upper walls, while I was away, so things kept moving a bit. Exhausting to one and all at the mobile home!