Long story short, we had roof damage, which leaked into the rooms upstairs in our house. Leaked is a sweet little word when I want to say it was _hit show. The water damage was extensive in five rooms. We decided to open our wallets and fork over a truckload of money to redo our entire roof and the skylights, resurface the ceiling areas, and repaint four and a half rooms.
So fun!
We hired our favorite golden-hand man, Rene, and his wife, Laitica, to do the needed interior work and another young man, Clemence, a roofer, to do the exterior.
When you redo a roof, you want to do it when you hope it won’t rain. Summer was the planned moment: goodbye vacation, hello, very hot summer on a roof and upstairs without air conditioning.
So fun.
Nobody barely complained.
My full admiration is theirs.
Everything was moved from one room to the next, covered, stored, pulled, cramped, and muscles and innovation to find places for a collector’s stuff. Dusty, debris, decisions, and desperation were in the mix;
So fun!
Dust! My newest, not best, friend greeted me constantly. I wanted to slap it silly!
Thank goodness I like challenges. Thank goodness I had a mother who made work into a game.
I told Yann, “Let’s see what we can do in an hour. Ready? If you take one room, you can have the first choice! Whoever finishes first has to buy the other an ice cream.”
He said, “No. Not funny.”
Changes and upheaval stress Yann.
Deconstruction construction.
There were ladders, buckets, dust, dust, dust, paint cans, wires, tools, and constant going up and down the two flights of stairs.
While this was taking place, Chelsea and her family moved in with us, and I planned for the four groups that were coming in the next five weeks.
When it rains, it pours, but at least not in our house anymore.
A hodgepodge of everything all at once.
But it is done. The roof is in perfect condition, the scaffolding has been taken down, four rooms have been painted, and everything has been put back together except for Yann’s office. The piles, files, and boxes are strewn all over the kingdom.
I took a two-hour nap.
Fun.
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