As was mentioned in my last installment, the contractor raced against darkness to get the new roof deck up, but didn't have enough time to get the roof felt on before fall of darkness. The roofer was tentatively scheduled to arrive the next day (Friday), so the contractor started work on the next step in … Continue reading House Repairs: New Roof
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A Blast of the Past #127: Trunk or Treat
AUMC's Trunk or Treat is 2009 is the subject of today's blast from the past.
House Repairs: New Roof Deck
The same day the shingles and siding came off, the new roof deck went up. See below in pictures. The roof felt was also supposed to go on, but with the short winter day the contractor ran out of time. See below:
House Repairs: Ripping out the wall and ceiling
Today's post shows pictures of the house repairs from the Octotober storm. Here the contractor is opening up the back wall and removing the section of damaged ceiling -- which gives a good view through the opened ceiling to the full extent of the roof damage. (Further images coming. WordPress having another image upload fit.)
Winds of Change: Insurance Adjusting
Well, most of what I write from this point out about our house repairs after the tree damage is going to be done somewhat in arrears. My last piece was done on Nov. 14 as we were clearing items out of the affected room to prepare it for the contractors to start their work. At … Continue reading Winds of Change: Insurance Adjusting
A Blast of the Past #125: Readers’ Theatre
This was an episode of Reader's Theatre. Pictrues give suggestions, but without labels, they are just interesting guesses.
A Blast of the Past #124: Ren Fest days of yore.
Now we come to some pictures of Ren Fest from 8 years ago. These pictures include some of the people who will be caroling the next several days at the Overland Park Luminary Walk.
Thanksgiving … baking
For this year's Thanksgiving feature, I'm going to give you a video of some solid hymns with example of some baking for today's Thanksgiving feast. The hymns are from my recordings for the Great Hymns of the Faith songbook album. I would have preferred to have Come, Ye Thankful People Come, but it is near … Continue reading Thanksgiving … baking
A Blast of the Past #123: Tenth Birthday
Nathan's 10th birthday is today's view of the past.
Clean up: the house, the refrigerator
Today's task was getting the movables out of the addition, the "play room" that had its wall bashed in by the tree. But that put me in mind of our refrigerator, and the drawers on the bottom, and shelves in the door, stacked with items not getting used. So we also cleaned out the shriveled … Continue reading Clean up: the house, the refrigerator
At The Rainbow 