Roofington: A retrospective

Sept 1, 2007. My last week in Maryland. Kevin needed a new roof. I was conveniently "not working."

It took us a few days to get the old roof off... Dean, Kevin and Matt helped but the Mazda b2300 was the real hero. Shingles are heavy, and we tossed them right down into the truck.

Man Work

Only a few sheets of plywood needed replacing. Lucky.

New Shingles ready to be laddered up. Again...heavy.

This county dump in Maryland is an ironically pretty place.

It provides a rare vantage.

Tweaked Backs: 2

Bottles of Gatoraid: 6.
Chipotle Burritos: 2

Flat Tires from roofing nails: 2

Im in ur yard...catchin' ur shingals.

Nearly done with the front.

Complete!

Kevin put on the finishing touches. Well done.

I've been promising this post (in all it's glory) for years. Mission accomplished.

It maybe time for the web log to retire. How could anything top this?

Farewell to PG Review and others...

I caved when the 16-year-old newspaper kid at my door admitted he would spend the money he earned on girls, and not on college textbooks as he initially told me. So I've been receiving the Sunday Daily Herald for the past year. I like it, and read it at work. I also get the Lehi Free Press in the mail once a week, having moved from Lehi last year.

I was a little bummed to read that the Herald will discontinue the Lehi Free Press, American Fork Citizen, Pleasant Grove Review, Lone Peak Press and Orem Times after the Feb. 19th issue. I have a lot of memories attached with the PG Review from when mom wrote several columns for that paper.

The Daily Herald has several more local papers like this that they don't mention. I have a few photos published in the South Utah County paper every year and I'm hoping they continue that one at least.

So, sad day...but what can you do. Some day we'll have to explain things like "newspaper" to our kids, much like I do with my son with "film." It can't ALL go away though... what would we clean our windows with?

That Makes People...

My comment made woots homepage today. Things are going to start happening to me now.

Enlarged version

Thanks to Emily for noticing.

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