Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Flowering Crab Apple tree













I had been up from a nap for about 15 minutes when Peter wanted to go out and see the roof and take pictures.












I am glad we took these pictures last week. The brilliant color is gone now. The flowering Crab apple tree in our front yard. It is totally gorgeous this year!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Our New Roof





This is what the roof looked like when we bought the house.








This picture is part of the crew of [6], taking off the original shingles. Next shows the amount of new plywood.

We are finally getting work done on our roof. The back side is almost finished in some of these shots! And they had to replace a lot more plywood than originally thought. But we suspected there would be more damage under the 2 layers of shingles. I asked if the first layer was original, and they said probably so. The house was built in the 1950's . As you can see the back is almost complete, they started on the front today and hope to finish up the job tomorrow.































The new roof is finished and looks great!

You can see a little bit of the new garden fencing and gate in the lower left of this picture.

The cage on the deck is full of seedlings that we started in the house. I just cover the cage at night now - don't take them in and out every day.


Front of the house.