day 24: "i am thankful for......DETERMINATION!"

on friday morning, 3 pallets full of shingles/tar paper/starters/drip edge and ridge caps arrived and were dropped in our driveway.  we are roofing our entire house/garage.  we are wanting to get some practice (refresh our memories) on the garage roof, so that is where we started.

day 1:  friday

1. ripping off old gutter
2. ripping off old drip edge
3. place tarp/wagon under garage roof
4. w/ roof shovels, tear/unnail old shingles
5. take many trips to dump debris (we took them all over to our 'scary barn'.  we are planning on burying that baby anyways :))
6. sweep....again, and again, and again...
7. tar paper whole side
8. install new drip edge
9. install starter shingles
10. start shingling

how far we got w/ shingles day #1 (see them?)

it started to sprinkle.....then the sun went down....then we stopped, got cleaned up, thinking we were done for the day.... hah!  not quite.   we did not place tarps in place...BIG MISTAKE!  the sprinkle turned to rain, then turned to downpour....the weather was in the RED!  sam was already outside covering up the miter and table saws inside the garage...i grabbed a rain coat, and a big a** tarp and trudged my sore aching body up the ladder in the 'red' rain towards the pitch black roof top to cover it!  hubby came up with another tarp.  ok...under control.  whew!  end of day #1

hubby and me

here i am, roof shovel in hand (i'm trying to figure out why i am smiling ;))

 

day #2: saturday

1. take tarps off (whoo hoo!  it's sunny!)
2. continue shingling first side
3. start ripping off other side of garage roof
4. bring sam to soccer game
5. continue shingling
6. pbj dinner all around....
7. DETERMINED by dark to get first side ALL shingled
8. DETERMINED by dark to get second side ALL torn off

front side DONE!

back side ripped off!

WE DID IT!  by the end of day #2 we shingled the front and ripped off the back.                                                                                              


DETERMINATION.......it's a good thing, especially when you have NOTHING left in you....







.......so, what are you especially thankful for today?!