A full weekend of rehab fun

Well....after tearing out the last of the pine boarding in the great room, which revealed that squirrels were living in the batt insulation, a serious acorn storage unit, poop, and what insulation that was not eaten by the nut-smugglers, was wet. So, friday after work, Erik ripped off the roof and I got right on clean-up. We worked until it was dark, and got ready for an early morning. I was on the roof at 8am on Saturday cleaning off the rest of the rotten shingles and swept off the mess. Erik came with more supplies. He had to rebuild the rotten soffits and added trim to the eaves, before we started rolling out the ice and water shield. The roof over the great room is such a low pitch- 4/12, so we applied this on the entire roof. Meanwhile on solid ground- Eric Preston came with his stump grinder- and took care of the two stumps on the front of the house- where we hope to be able to build a mud room addition at some point. It took him about an hour- and there were two giant piles of wood chip debris. I think I might use this later for mulch? Does anyone know if that is do-able? I was thinking I could mix it with peet moss- if anyone has thoughts- please reply!

By Saturday night, we had the roof waterproofed. Which was our goal, since Kevin Mannix said it was going to be drizzle on Sunday. He was wrong- luckily for us. Erik and I got up early and stopped by Home Depot on the way to the house, and I got some mice poison, and Erik bought a roofing gun, and a chalk line. We got right to work putting the shingles up. Erik got tired of me watching him, and he kicked me off the roof and I started raking the hills of wood chips. Good timing, as Erik started getting going- Carter rolled in, ready to dig in.

Camo and Bartlett romped- they played tug of war, swimming in the pond, and followed me around the yard like I was the "pied piper" going everywhere and doing everything I was doing. It was nice to have 2 dogs to keep each other occupied.

After an unsuccessful trip to Home Depot for two more bundles of shingles, there were 2 more trips to Lowes to get the right shade- finally Erik and Carter were able to finish buttoning up the roof, just in time to make a dinner with friends! We might be too old for this?