Just a quick update…
Spent a lot of time on the roof today…in the 30-40 mph north winds, stripping paint off the fishscales.
Some of it was practically stripping itself.
Finished….this is a couple hours work…in biting cold, heavy wind. Brrrr.
Also, the first set of sashes is primed (second coat) and ready for some sanding, then perhaps, [...]
One side effect of rebuilding the window sills…
In this picture:
All the fishscale that the paint is scraped off of…was loose from the wall. It had been repaired over the years with short roofing nails…the result of which was they were sort of attached to each other, but not really to the wall.
I made one [...]
Didn’t get much done on the house this weekend…I took my sweetie to a Valentines Day dinner at the Lennox house in our town. This is a house owned by the historical district and it’s beautifully renovated…the dinner is put on by volunteers and the trustees and is a fund raiser. New friends in town [...]
We are being invaded. Daily, no matter the temperature, we are finding at least a half dozen Ladybugs more…
My company has announced some extremely severe cutbacks despite the fact that we are profitable. Wall Street demands more. Gotta pay out those executive bonuses afterall.
Anyway, shortly they are going to lay off somewhere upwards of 500 workers…that’s an extremely healthy percentage of our remaining workforce.
In addition, for any remaining behind they’ve reneged on our [...]
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