Benjo

Friday, March 17, 2006

Thanks puppies!

So...on the west wall on the south side of the chimney there is a leak in the roof. The shingles were starting to sink down/in so I figured that now would be a good time to fix it. I went up and started peeling away two layers of shingles (there should only be one layer) and zero tar paper (there should be tar paper under it as well.) But this is not much of a surprise because in the house, some of the drywall was put on backwards and the carpet padding was placed upside down among other things. When I pulled away the shingles I could see inside the attic. Yeah, the wood had rotted away and there was nothing there. So I peeled back some more shingles and chucked them over the edge, not paying attention to where they were going. I probably peeled off 20 square feet. When I went down the ladder to clean up the shingles I noticed that several traveled quite a distance! It was a little windy, but nothing tornadic.
Then I heard some puppy licenses clanging and realized that Brody and Allie were busting around the house. They usually like to play "stick", which is when Brody places anything from the size of a twig all the way up to a 6 foot tree limb in her mouth and runs around the yard with Allie in chase. They love this game and play it at every opportunity. However, this day they played "shingle". But one shingle was not enough. It was necessary for them to use several, like thirty, and drop them sporadically throughout the yard. So instead of cleaning up a small mess, I made several trips around the yard looking for bits of shingles. Thanks puppies!