Nine hours. Nine cold, snowy, cold, long hours.

That’s how long it took me to repair a leak in the roof. A lot of people told me I should have just hired a good Roofing Company for the job, and I’m starting to think that they were right. The sad part was that I was planning on having it done in five hours…. sigh.

The good news is that I learned how to repair a roof leak.

Kind of.

The “roof leak” wasn’t really a “leak” – well, technically, it was on the roof and it did leak – but it wasn’t like a “real leak”. Long story short, we are on the lookout for a new roof, but we will have to find a Demolition Sydney service to remove the exisiting roof first.

This “fake” leak was a portion of the roof that did not get shingled when the house was build. As such, it was really easy to find and decently easy to repair. If the job had been a bit more complicated I would have strongly considered bringing forward our plans to renovate the roof. I had already found the ideal contractors by searching roofing Roanoke online.

“Decently easy” is a nice way of saying that “I ripped out and replaced the plywood; tarred the heck out of the wood, metal, shingles and anything else in the way.”

Now that I know how to do it, if it ever happens again I’ll be able to resolve the issue. However, spending nine hours up on the roof again doesn’t sound ideal to me, especially in bad weather conditions…maybe I’ll just contact a roofing contractor like Bordner Home Improvement if there is a next time!

Now if only I can find the “real leak” by the skylight… the one with the shingles and stuff.

I had a choice Sunday:

• Watch the biggest football game of the year (with a nail biting end)  – OR –

• Work on building a shop.

At the risk of having my “man” card revoked, I choose to work on the shop.

Do you know the crazy part?  I HAD TONS OF FUN!!

Yelp – it was better then watching $3 million ads.

Better then watching some crazy guys hit their heads against each other in search for a pigskined grass line.

Sigh. Here is my “man” card. Take it.[@more@]

I’m joining the “none” group.  

Who are the “none” group? They are the folks who fail to fall into the stereotypical, marketing crap that drives the greed machine of the global economy. (yes – we caused the economical collapses, by buying within our means and rejecting….. wait a minute?  How did I get so far off topic…  sigh.

Anyway. I worked on my shop this weekend and made very good progress – as you can see from the pictures.

I even have the really, really cool peg boards to hang things on. All I need now is a black marker to draw outlines.

There is much rejocing in the Ardell household!

After two and a half long, long years – the wife now has a HUGE pantry to storage items (she laid in bed last night till the early dawn hours planning how to use it!!)

For those who did not get to see the orignal pantry, let me descripe it real quick. Look at the picture to the right – see where the small 8in shelves meet the larger ones?  

That is where the orignal pantry stopped. Yelp, I busted out a wall and added 18 square feet of usable space. Much happiness! 

In addition to adding space for bulk food items, the recycling bins now have a home – as do the broom (you can barely see them on your right).

oh – look at the floor!

NO – not your floor!!!! The floor in the picture!!

Some people…sigh.[@more@]

The floor in the picture, look at it – I'm very proud of the fact that I found a nice 8 by 4 piece of wood grain flooring on sell. It goes great with the wood floor in the kitchen and dinning area…well.. the color is off, but it's wood grain!

And the coolest part – automatic can dispensers!

Yelp – take off the first can and the second one will roll down to take its place.  

It's a great idea I stole off a friend who build some similar shevles for his wife. 

ah.. life is good.

Sometimes the simplest projects take the longest… then again, maybe it’s the builder?

This weekend was spent listening to Lenka, Chieftains,     Zoegirl, Au Bella, and the Corrs while painting our new pantry.

It was pretty fun…except that when I stopped and realized how weak I was…

Did you know that a paint brush weights 10 pounds? It’s true!!! well…as least according to my arms….sigh

Well, at least the music was good.

hmm… the picture is a bit too long… now I need some filler to make it look smaller.

Maybe if I type another line or two… of course, I could make the pic smaller…but what would the point be? 

or I can delete it? who wants to see a buy sitting under a staircase holding a brush?