Better damn sure stay there!!
Today, we are having a new roof put on our house. Odd one that I am, I have this “thing” about rain falling INDOORS. In the front bathroom, it wasn’t so bad. The leak was over the bathtub area, and I guess, when you’re there, you’re already wet. So, my husband reasoned, What’s the big rush?
When it started to rain in the dining room, he didn’t have a quick comeback. Unfortunately, a new roof is a big chunk of change. I coulda bought a lot of yarn. Bet Pop is thinking that he could have played a lot of golf for what this is costing us! So it goes with home ownership.
We didn’t expect it would be this soon. Pop talked to several contractors, got estimates, looked at their work and such, and settled on this one company. We expected that the work would be done in a couple of weeks, but they had a cancellation, and could do it today. The sun is shining; it’s a bit chilly, but not a cloud in sight. A good thing on roofing-day.
AND another concern I had about this job was the stupid dog. She barks at everything. If there’s a cricket on the lawn of the folks that live 6 houses down, and the cricket belches, my dog comes off the couch, out of a sound sleep, and barks for 5 minutes. I could only imagine what she’d be like on a day with trucks coming and going, workers up and down, on and off the roof, up there stomping around, the sounds of power tools, debris dropping into the dumpster, bales of shingles falling with a THUD!
I envisioned several scenarios by the end of the day. The dog completely hoarse from all the barking, needing a throatectomy. The dog completely insane, needing to spend the rest of her days on medication in a poodle sanatorium, the dog dead because my husband slit her throat with the jagged edge of a new shingle, just to shut her up. All seemed quite possible. But it worked out wonderfully. Every 6 to 8 weeks, my fancy-dame poodle goes to the “hairdresser” and it just so happened that this cancellation was for the same day that Sophie was scheduled to go to the Doggie Spa.
This haircut may save her life.
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Knitting
Not much gets done when you’re running around like a lunatic much of the time, but here’s some small amount of progress on Pop’s socks.
The colorway is truly this nice, and Pop likes it. The yarn is wonderful to work with. Socks are plain, as he prefers, and the bit of ribbing is really only there to give them a snug fit.
