As soon as she hears you take the can of whip cream from the fridge she comes running!
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Mischief Monday - When It Rains Inside
The scene: The warmed day in months, we are all having a Saturday afternoon bed nap.
Lady is awoken to the words "get a bucket, the roof is leaking" and it all went down hill from there. There were a LOT of HBO words. A LOT! This cannot be understated. Lady is not a crier but she has a mouth that would make a sailor blush.
After the buckets were in place, as the Man raced to the neighbours to see if anyone was home to borrow a ladder long enough to reach the roof (no one was), Lady started looking for roofers. (FYI: A long ladder has been ordered and will be here on Tuesday). 1.5 hours after it began, a roofer was on the very snowy roof.
The short story: Given how much snow is up there, the exact amount of damage is unclear. The roof itself is in good shape. The problem is with some joints and the V part. The building inspector missed this. The roofer (who looks 12 by the way, but seems to know his stuff) needs to wait for the snow to melt to come back with a drone (welcome to the 21st century) to do a full inspection and measurements. Basically we need to fix these joints and put in something called flat roof in the V. Once the roof is fixed, they can take on having the bedroom ceiling repaired. This is going to be expensive. Thank goodness for the emergency fund!
In the meantime, the roofer left a long ladder and Lady and Man have had the opportunity to shovel snow off the roof. Lady is proud of herself for getting up (she listed off all the brave things she has ever done, the list is short but includes skydive, zip line, bobsled, climb a pyramid as she went up). Getting down was really not pretty but due to the danger of it, there is no video so she can pretend it was graceful.
Let's hope the snow melts sooner rather than later so at least we don't have to keep buckets in the bedroom and the leaking stops. (The leaking occurred from about 2:30 pm-9 pm on Saturday. At the time of this writing there had been no more leaks, but it is colder today and melting may not be happening)
Lady is awoken to the words "get a bucket, the roof is leaking" and it all went down hill from there. There were a LOT of HBO words. A LOT! This cannot be understated. Lady is not a crier but she has a mouth that would make a sailor blush.
After the buckets were in place, as the Man raced to the neighbours to see if anyone was home to borrow a ladder long enough to reach the roof (no one was), Lady started looking for roofers. (FYI: A long ladder has been ordered and will be here on Tuesday). 1.5 hours after it began, a roofer was on the very snowy roof.
The short story: Given how much snow is up there, the exact amount of damage is unclear. The roof itself is in good shape. The problem is with some joints and the V part. The building inspector missed this. The roofer (who looks 12 by the way, but seems to know his stuff) needs to wait for the snow to melt to come back with a drone (welcome to the 21st century) to do a full inspection and measurements. Basically we need to fix these joints and put in something called flat roof in the V. Once the roof is fixed, they can take on having the bedroom ceiling repaired. This is going to be expensive. Thank goodness for the emergency fund!
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| The damage in the ceiling. There is also a crack in the wall over the door. |
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| The view up there is amazing. Lady suggested we put a deck up there. |
Let's hope the snow melts sooner rather than later so at least we don't have to keep buckets in the bedroom and the leaking stops. (The leaking occurred from about 2:30 pm-9 pm on Saturday. At the time of this writing there had been no more leaks, but it is colder today and melting may not be happening)
Friday, April 5, 2019
Nature Friday - Turkey Removal
Facebook friends will have seen this, but for those of you who aren't on Facebook, I thought you would enjoy this.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Contest Update 2
Welcome to this week's when will the snow be gone contest update!
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| Snow be gone, I have a tan to work on! |
April 9 – Phenny
and Nelly
April 10 – Just
Mags
April 12 –
C.L.W. Step (aka Chester)
April 13 –
Matilda
Here is the yard as of noon yesterday.
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| It isn't much but you can see the grass/garden beside the house |
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| You can smell some spring in the air |
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| Even though the snow is still out, Precious made her debut on Monday for Phod's birthday. |
Well, we don't like to be too negative but unless we get a miracle, we don't think the first 4 entries are going to win. Unfortunately, we did get a couple new inches last weekend so instead of going we added. I guess this is what happens when you live north of the wall!
Come back next Thursday to see if any more snow is gone. The rain in the forecast may help some.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Monday, April 1, 2019
Happy 8ishth Birthday Dear Zaphod!
We don't know when he was born or exactly how old he is (the joys of being a stray), but today is the day we celebrate Zaphod who is 8ish.
We had a weekend of indoor celebrations as the snow and freezing rain were not pleasant.
Here is his official birthday portrait.
To celebrate I made some bake-a-bone cookies using some leftover human pork. They were a big hit (which is good because they will be eating them all week!)
Happy birthday to our sweet suck-a-bear, may we celebrate many more together!
We had a weekend of indoor celebrations as the snow and freezing rain were not pleasant.
Here is his official birthday portrait.
To celebrate I made some bake-a-bone cookies using some leftover human pork. They were a big hit (which is good because they will be eating them all week!)
Happy birthday to our sweet suck-a-bear, may we celebrate many more together!
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