We finished putting the roof on the house…it has taken us three years.

That is because we do it ourselves with the help of our son-in-law, Kelly.

Although, we bought everything at once so we would match (a very good idea) we took our time to do the job.

The reason why—

• we had to do it between the pinto bean harvest and the corn harvest
• we are old and need help
• Kelly is an Assistant Principal at one of our local high schools and only has one fall break
• It isn’t possible to do it in winter (in our opinion)
• It isn’t possible to do it in the spring or the summer either, because of the crops
• WHAT!?!?!  Hire it done?!?!?!  (Terry’s words)
• A week is long-enough to work on an heavy, exhausting project
• I’m sure there are other reasons but these were enough for us

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This the last year…three years and we are done!

First we had to tear off the old roof and shingles and fix any broken boards that may be up there.

Then came the new roof, the felt paper and the metal.

Yippee!

Linda

P.S.  I should have painted, but I didn’t think about it until we were done and I could see how badly painting was needed.

I guess I will have to do it next summer….on a metal roof.  Sigh!