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Friday's Accomplishments
Aug. 7th, 2010 06:26 pmTrudging onward, one task at at time.
( What we got done Friday Afternoon )
On Saturday morning, I spent a couple of hours splitting another log into pieces small enough to be carted for sawing into burnable pieces later, and then I took the "pole-axe" (extensible pole with a saw on the end of it) and cut some old, dead branches off the fir tree that looms over the walkway across the property. That tree has dropped piles of branches in bad weather, and I would prefer to cut it back on our own schedule rather than deal with the mess in a snowstorm.
In the afternoon, Lisa took me and her father in to Stayton to buy four more gallons of Gray Goo, as we have exhausted the supply from the local hardware store for now. A five gallon bucket of the goo would cost less than four one-gallon cans; however, it would be too heavy to transport to the roof, and we figure we would waste at least a gallon of the stuff trying to refill smaller cans and take it up top. Oh, sure, if we'd bought a bunch of scaffolding and put a block-and-tackle arrangement in place, it wouldn't be a problem. Of course, this is why professional roofers wanted $15,000 to repair the roof.
When we got back from lunch and shopping in Stayton, I found myself unexpectedly tired and fell into bed for a three-hour nap. Lisa went and cut small brush on the property while I slept. It's a pity in some ways, as it's very cloudy and cooler today than most of the past week, so I could have gotten more work done today if I'd been up to it physically, but my body let me down. We do expect to put in another session of Goopery on the roof this evening, however, which (we hope) will end with the new section of roof cloth completely covered in Gray Goo.
( What we got done Friday Afternoon )
On Saturday morning, I spent a couple of hours splitting another log into pieces small enough to be carted for sawing into burnable pieces later, and then I took the "pole-axe" (extensible pole with a saw on the end of it) and cut some old, dead branches off the fir tree that looms over the walkway across the property. That tree has dropped piles of branches in bad weather, and I would prefer to cut it back on our own schedule rather than deal with the mess in a snowstorm.
In the afternoon, Lisa took me and her father in to Stayton to buy four more gallons of Gray Goo, as we have exhausted the supply from the local hardware store for now. A five gallon bucket of the goo would cost less than four one-gallon cans; however, it would be too heavy to transport to the roof, and we figure we would waste at least a gallon of the stuff trying to refill smaller cans and take it up top. Oh, sure, if we'd bought a bunch of scaffolding and put a block-and-tackle arrangement in place, it wouldn't be a problem. Of course, this is why professional roofers wanted $15,000 to repair the roof.
When we got back from lunch and shopping in Stayton, I found myself unexpectedly tired and fell into bed for a three-hour nap. Lisa went and cut small brush on the property while I slept. It's a pity in some ways, as it's very cloudy and cooler today than most of the past week, so I could have gotten more work done today if I'd been up to it physically, but my body let me down. We do expect to put in another session of Goopery on the roof this evening, however, which (we hope) will end with the new section of roof cloth completely covered in Gray Goo.
