DONE

All that's left is the trailer full of debris!!

Ten roofers came yesterday at 6 am... moved my potted plants... moved the deck furniture and went to work! They worked hard till 6.30 pm taking only 30 minutes for lunch. Someone even brought a microwave which was plugged into the electrical cord for the nail guns!
At 6.30 only two small ventilators were left to be installed and the trucks driven away. Everything was tidied and every put back in place!!
This morning the ventilators were installed and the conveyor truck driven off.... I'm sure someone will come for the debris trailer shortly.
Yesterday was rain and storm free and today will be the same.  I'm sure the men were glad for a solid work day. They are so behind. Today will be the same!!
The roof looks great!!

What's that noise??

Woke up this morning at 6 am to the noise of men trampling overhead!!  The roofers are here! They moved everything on the deck and my potted plants out front.... laid plastic sheeting all around and started tearing off the old roofing - wood shingles from when the house was built in 1976 and asphalt shingles from 1991.
Lots of noise... the house shakes...things slide from on top to the plastic below!!! Then they use the plastic as bags to load the old shingles into the trailer to be taken away!!
The cats are puzzled... Tigger wanders around and then watches from a window. Not sure where Jack is hiding.
Since we had wood shingles, there is no sheathing. Another conveyor belt truck sits in the driveway waiting  for the roofers to need the load of sheathing it carries!  When they get the old stuff off I am hoping no one falls through into the attic!!

With all this going on and the plastic .... I am housebound.

I will add more as the saga continues...

9.20 am ... the conveyor is taking the sheathing up!  

Honk Honk

Went back to the park for a walk this morning and found the flock of geese and goslings munching away near the lake.  I took pictures with my cell and found that I had taken too long. The geese decided I was a threat ( I guess) and started making aggressive noises and stretching their necks, opening their beaks and making noise.
Rather than have them attack I turned around and went back the way I had come...lol !
My Mother and step-father had geese on their farm on the Cumberland Strait in Nova Scotia, Canada... using them for "guard dogs" while raising them for the butcher in the fall.  No one could come onto the barn yard without lots of ruckus from the geese!
I liked the geese best when one came out of the oven for Christmas dinner!!

Roof and goslings

Yesterday a huge truck showed up in our driveway to deliver some of the supplies for our new roof. It was  supposed to have been done weeks ago but our weather has interfered with the roofer's schedule.  Anyway the truck has a conveyor which reminds me of one a farmer uses to put his hay bales up in the barn loft. 
The men lifted up all sorts of roofing materials onto the roof ! Our new work date is Monday but we are supposed to have more rain and thunderstorm and possibly tornadoes for the next 7 plus days. Guess things will be postponed again!  LOL

This morning I felt good enough to resume my walks in Blue Springs' Railroad Park. I have been battling bursitis in the hip of my broken/healed leg.... which made walking etc. painful to the extreme. My new primary care doctor 's plan seems to be working!! Hooray for him!!

Look what was enjoying our very wet park's grass! Lots of new green stuff and probably lots of bugs etc.
The goslings are still somewhat downy but huge. Mom and Dad were keeping a vigilant eye on them so I didn't go too close! They are Canadian geese.... more of the flock were to my left.
The lake was quite full and running over the dam.  The path around the lake is 4/10 of a mile long... so it's easy to keep track of my mileage! Not that I do much currently!

Roadtrip to Wellington ( Missouri)

We finally made it out to the LaBella Winery in Wellington, MO.  This afternoon was rain freee ... lots of fluffy clouds and blue sky. The area around Wellington is quite rural  and the winery is on a dirt and gravel road with lots of green rolling hills and fields ready for planting or with little shoots popping up! The winery's vines have loads of small hand sized leaves.  The tasting room employee says they raise most of the grapes for their wines!

Next time maybe we'll have some wood fired pizza on the porch overlooking the small lake!!
With it being so nice out, it was even better to go on a road trip!!
We have so many flood warnings out, we decided not to come home on the road which runs along side the Missouri River.

BTW... this Wellington is in Missouri. The next town over is Napoleon.... This area was settled before the Civil War with the "rich" folk up on the healthier bluffs  and the "poor" people down by the river...

Here we go again

After tantalizing us with days of warm wonderful weather, the weather people say we will have a week of on and off rain.  Yuck... Luckily we brought the deck chair cushions into the house and so none of them are wet.
My deck flowers seem happy....

Today's storm band brought tornadoes from Texas to Nebraska. Luckily they were west of us.  We do have flash flooding and street closures  in the area.  Tomorrow , if it is dry after noon, I am going to talk  my husband into a short road trip to visit a winery and then home via the road which runs along the Missouri River. I am curious to see how high the water is.  The ground is so saturated that it runs off into the streams and rivers and stays in puddles... we have a low area that looks like a pond!

I saw on Facebook that there was an area near the Arctic Circle that reached 84 degrees today... unbelievable .

we hit 90 degrees

Sitting eating dinner on the deck with flowers in the boxes and hitting 90 degrees for the first time this year was nice!!
Tomorrow is supposed to be the same but a little more humid....
then we get rain and thunderstorms this weekend... oh well. Must remember to take the cushions in Friday night!!

it's been a hectic week

It has been a super hectic week.... my sister-in-law drove to our house from South Carolina to visit for a week.
Last weekend was the US Mothers' Day so that meant lots of company. Our 12 year old grand son made sloppy joe's for Sunday's dinner using his uncle's favorite recipe. He doubled the recipe so we are still eating leftovers!
Last weekend was also the "Spring Stars" four day online bear show.

Then you add all the usual visitor type add-on stuff... and a dinner out with my quilting ( stitch and bitch group) group...
Add to that, I did something to "the leg" which caused all sorts of pain....

My sister-in-law headed out this morning for South Carolina... a long two day car trip.  I will miss her but some only " the two of us again" will be good!!   Also it will mean the leg can rest!!

Tai Chi

Our dues for the local Y comes from our health insurance plan so when Bob saw on the calendar that the Y holds "Tai chi" classes twice a week, we decided to give it a try.
I now feel exhausted and totally un-co-ordinated (?)...I can't follow the teacher's hands and feet at the same time. Hopefully I will improve!  There are several people who do chair tai chi... I may resort to that until I have the arm /hands movements down pat.

Spring must be here. Bob got the lawn mower out of its winter storage and did its spring overhaul.... and then he mowed the yard!! We still have some of last fall's leaves to bag up. I wish we could have a bonfire but that's illegal here. The trash collectors have to pick leaves and garden waste up separately and in special bags that can decompose and take them to a special landfill.

Blue Springs has four thrift stores... Goodwill, Salvation Army, Disabled Vets and Habitat for Humanity. We try not to throw away things that could be donated. Today we took a trunk load to Goodwill.

Now we're back to thunderstorms and lightening... it's 9 pm. Good thing we brought in the chair cushions from the deck. LOL

sunny - hip hip hooray

Today it was sunny even though a little cool. So I decided to follow my orthopedic surgeon's advice and get some walking in. The leg is healed and the OS is pleased with himself, but it does ache near my hip and supposedly walking is good.
So off to Blue Springs' Railroad Park. It has bricks marking the path in tenths of a mile. One circumference is  four tenths of a mile. The playgrounds were empty much to the delight of the Canadian geese. The inlets to the "lake" were still flowing briskly due to all our rain and the city's ground crews were mowing.
I wish I had taken my hospital provided grabber because the park had loads of trash probably blown in  or brought in by the rain. I don't like trying to pick things up along the lake - had visions of falling in!  But did manage to get quite a lot picked up and put into the trash barrels. Felt good about that!!

I gave up after doing 1.2 miles... more next time??