Roof or DiMaggio?

The old talking dog trick. What's over your head in a house? Roof. Who's the best ball-player of all time? Roof.
And, if you go to the Loony Tunes version - after getting kicked out of the audition, the dog asks, "Maybe I should have said DiMaggio?"

Dan Gingerich and his crew showed up today to begin work on the .... roof. Faux real.

All I can say is this - it is NO FUN working in the kind of wind we had out here today. It started out difficult and ended at levels that were well beyond difficult. I've got to hand it to them, they stuck it out - even if it was a battle just to get the ice and water barrier and tar paper down.

My job is to clean up the tear off. It's a tedious and wearing job at best. Today - it was at its worst. There were two layers of asphalt and one layer of cedar shakes up there. The asphalt is not so hard to work with. The cedar shakes mixed in make it impossible with the wind blowing as hard as it was. Even if I DID manage to clear up an area, the wind made sure that shakes got spread into those locations later.

Typically, the wind calms down in the evening (though the weather forecast says it will calm down to gusts of 25 mph..hmm). But, I'm too tired to consider taking advantage of these 'calm' breezes.

I sure hope it calms down tomorrow.