Hodgepodge

No not the skin disease, but the kind you put on the roof. What was even cooler was that the delivery was able t back the truck up to the low edge of the roof, and we drafted the ramp we use to get to the second floor door (stairs are on the to-do list) and jgaleckas and I could just carry them up the ramp. All 45 bundles are now on the roof! That is way easier than lifting from the ground.

It;s overcast and cold but dry so we will probably get some nailed down before the rain tomorrow - hopefully it will be light.

Since jgaleckas busted her butt yesterday finishing the roof panels in the waning moments of daylight, we took it a little easy today. We moved some boards from the ground outside into the newly roofed shop, moved 15 sheets of plywood and OSB from the Mousemobile into the shop and unloaded the trailer which has sat for a few weeks now while we focused on the roof.

While we did this, we started a fire in the fire pit that we made when we stayed in the shed (then we called it the "Cabin"). The fire was to burn the scraps we had left over form doing the roof. It was nice to have a warm spot to stand by when we took a break from the unloading and odd work.

Tomorrow the shingles delivered so we can have more fun!

Tuesday was rain again so no work on the roof. Unpacked the van and went into town to take Mom shopping. Hopefully today the rain will let up enough to get some more trusses up.

If you read this blog, you may have noticed that I haven't posted here in over two months. The reason for this is because since moving to the farm, we have had only slow dial-up internet access. Since jgaleckas and I share this connection, there is barely enough time to check email, get news and do essentials like check investments and pay bills, etc. Time for social networking has been limited to popping on Facebook a few times a week.

But that has changed now. How you may ask? Did we get cable modem ? Nope - we are 25 miles from the nearest cable installation. DSL? We are too far from the access point and since we are in the middle of the Mark Twain National Forest, the sparse population makes it a loser for a phone provider to upgrade our access point. Wireless Broadband? Naw, we are 15 miles from the nearest cell tower so we don't even get cell phone service let alone broadband. So how is it we have broadband? A dish, a satellite 22,000 miles away and a modem equals hi-speed internet -Yay!

You have probably heard that Satellite internet is a real pain but I believe it's an undeserved rap and after we have had it a while I will post on the experience.So far it is waaaay better than dial-up.

( Banal life details after cut )

Now that we have broadband I plan to be back on LJ regularly and enlighten you with details of life on the farm.

We are at the farm for an extended visit so we can put the roof on the shop building.

We out the second floor on over a year ago and put a tarp on it until we moved and put the rook on (of course we thought at that time we would be here a few months later but things change).

The tarp has leaked and rather than allow any damage to the contents of the shop we decided to bite the bullet and get the roof on.

We order trusses from a local supplier and they delivered them Friday. We moved half into the upstairs yesterday and then went into town to take Momma shopping and such.

While at Mom's we got to see the weather forecast and the remains of Ike are going to dump on us tonight and Sunday but after that the weather looks clear. So today we got the rest of the trusses moved upstairs, battened down the tarp and went into town with the MouseMobile and picked up the shingles (in green which was Janice's preference) and the rest of the lumber. The mouse was sagging a bit under the load of 8 squares of shingles ( about 1000 lbs or more) but it got us home.

We will take it easy today and tomorrow we will stay in and watch the rain until time to go to Momma's for Sunday dinner. Hopefully we will not have to row.

If all goes well by Friday we will have a roof and no more leaks.