Dancing

My new roof is done. And it is so pretty and flat that I want to get up there and walk on it and dance on the smooth-ness.

But it is soooooo far up there. And my legs get all wobbly when I am just standing on the fourth rung of the ladder.

So I will stand on the ground and admire it from afar.

What a beautiful roof.

Roof Finished

Today the roofers came and finished the very last little part of our roof. It is done.

After 15 days, two downpouring rains that soaked my house, and 3 workers blaring their radio outside my house from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. .....

IT IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will get some pictures tomorrow. And write the check. Which the roofer thinks will be under the estimate he gave us. That is good news. Good news indeed.

They're Here! They're Here!

The roofers are here.

This is the very first (and probably last) project on our house that we are not doing ourselves. But it is sooooo worth every penny. I am not getting up on that super steep roof.

And today they arrived. They are up on my roof making a ton of noise and the shingles are a' fallen.

I will get some pictures tonight after they leave to show you all the progress.

Woooooohoooooo!

Attic Puked

This weekend we used our free time to clean out the attic that has been waiting so patiently for us to get up there and turn that empty space into bedrooms.

But it was not as empty as you would imagine. Our attic has been storage central for the last five years. So we had a few boxes up there. So we hauled boxes down 3 flights of stairs only to realize the attic had puked into our living room. This was only the beginning. Once we got the "organized" boxes out we hauled them to the garage. Which then looked like this:
I know we have a serious holiday imbalance. But you see we host the town's annual kids Halloween party so we have way more decorations for that. The ghost/pumpkin bean bag toss and the frankenstein plinko game were both constructed and designed by my insanely talented husband. We have two more rubbermaid containers full of Halloween stuff but until they start selling the orange and black ones we have to use the grey ones. :)

After about 3 hours of going through boxes labeled like this one

We had a garbage pile like this:

Which allowed us to sort the remaining stuff into newly purchased rubbermaid containers and put it all in the garage. By then it was 9:30 at night and dark so I couldn't get a picture of the garage or attic but believe me one is full and the other is empty. And I am so proud of my pack-rat husband. We have moved these boxes full of art stuff, his Dad's art stuff, and other "crap" that needed to be sorted through but he is not good at getting rid of anything. He managed to sort over 15 boxes down to 9 rubbermaid containers. Bravo! Although it may have something to do with him having to carry all 15 boxes (some full of books) down three flights of stairs. Maybe.

So now the roofers are due to arrive sometime this week and the construction on the attic bedrooms will commence shortly thereafter. Yippppeeee!