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Roof and Sun Tunnels - Complete!

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This week, the roof and sun tunnel project was started and completed, entirely on time, within budget, and without any horrible surprises. A miracle! Seriously, it feels like a miracle. The roof was reaching end of life and had a small problem that we knew about, but wasn't leaking anywhere, so we were cautiously optimistic that it might go smoothly. The thing we knew about was the fact that Mr. Bunkport's roofer hadn't done the most thorough job joining the new roof to the existing roof during the 2014 project. Looking at the pictures our roofer took before starting, it's uglier than we thought, but still not leaking four years later -- he gets credit for that: Also, this little vertical wall wasn't really done well in the first place -- it was just sort of a mass of shingles layered on top of each other: There turned out to be three things we didn't know about. First, we didn't know that there was loose tar paper left flapping in the wind under the flashin...

Todos Santos

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Today we are observing Todos Santos -- the day we pause to remember and honor our departed loved ones. Especially present in our thoughts today is Auntie Cynthia, a childhood friend of my mother's and a dear friend of the family, who passed away earlier this week. She will be greatly missed. Cynthia (Callahan) Langton 1947-2018