It poured rain Thursday all through the night. We went to Hubby's manager's wedding at an adorable Victorian home here in Horse Country. We all got seated and it started storming again! We came home once again to a leaking skylight...not a settling feeling. We saw from the weather reports that it would clear up by Saturday morning. Hubby got on the roof Saturday morning and assessed the situation. Evidently someone tried to fix it before and used untreated wood, the rotting wood seemed to be the source of the problem so we were off to Lowe's to get supplies. By late afternoon all was well in the world because our home was waterproof again and Hubby was off the roof. A word to the wise, tar does not come off easily. His clothes were trashed from this project and I had to scrub and clip and nip to get most of the tar off of his hands/nails. I am so thankful to have a husband that is so handy. He really is amazing!
Necessity is the mother of all invention- while he was on the roof we used a rope and shopping bag to get tools and other supplies up and down.
It's amazing how things work out- the rope that we used was purchased and never used before this day...who knows why we bought it! While at Lowe's we couldn't find the right type of screws for the project, I looked down and there was a box of the exact screws we had been looking for completely out of place and just for us. Our neighbors told us when we moved in that if we ever needed a ladder that we could borrow one, we were able to get just what we needed from them Saturday morning. Not to mention the fact that we came home Thursday night, that was not the plan. Had we not come home, I'm sure that we would have had some type of water damage on our kitchen floors. Too many blessings to count!
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