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Hard. Hot. Dangerous.
The roof of our house was one of thousands that got damaged by a bad-ass hail storm back in March. A crew is coming Monday to make the repairs and a couple of hard working gents showed up today to get things ready.
Wonder how they got the shingles up on the roof before someone came up with the conveyor belt. Whatever they pay these guys, it isn’t enough.
UPDATE (17aug20): The pounding you hear is crew of hard-working men putting a new roof on our house.
Since the March hail storm, thousands of homes in this area have had new roofs installed and I’ve been wondering where the old shingles went. Either the land fill or an asphalt recycling place. For a smaller house like ours, the land fill would charge about $250 and the recycling place about $175, but they won’t take a load if there’s trash mixed in. A larger home would cost $350 and $250 respectively. (numbers are approximate)
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I’ve gone back and forth on comments since I started blogging in February 2002. When I remember I disable them but rarely get any comments on posts where I forget. We don’t get a lot of visitors here but that’s always been fine by me. One of my favorite bloggers, Dave Winer, has what I consider the best approach to comments.
Start a blog, I advise, and say what you have to say and link to my post. Of course what they really wanted was to use my flow to (very often) zing me personally in some way. I consider that spam. Or hijacking. It gets so insidious so quickly that I haven’t had comments here for any duration for many years. It starts off collegial, but quickly devolves into abuse as the trolls take over.
I’ve attempted to disable all comments from previous posts but haven’t checked to see if that worked.
Wildlife: Doe and fawn
Might be my imagination but it seems the creatures are coming closer. Less skittish. Mother deer near the fence line and fawn in far left of photo. We stared at each other for a long time.