"a poem as lovely as a tree"

What does a tree look like?  Depends where and when you look.  Here is a piece of a tree which served as a shingle over my head for 25 years until a wind blew it off.

wood--split and sawed

Here's a pile of wood Ryan and I split. The front porch got a new roof yesterday of sawed cedar shingles. The shingles we removed had been on the roof for over 60 years. These news ones should last just as long. By then, the tree cut to make them will have been replaced. That's green in my book.

rubber roof

During the first hurricane this summer the flat roof started to leak. We had discoloration of the dry wall and a drip. Today R&L Siding is putting on a rubber roof, the rubber being Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer, which is an elastic polymer, is often used interchangeably with the term rubber. Two-inch insulation goes beneath it. The crew is multi-cultural.

blustery winds

A backache today and I'm looking around my space after a treatment at the chiropractor's office.

Here's evidence of the blustery winds which hit Monterey last week. The corner of the Miller's barn ripped open.

This image cropped way too much, but I shot it on my tripod.

At our house, a half dozen shingle pieces flew off in the storm.

New roof

In church conversations you hear "the church is the people." True enough.

The family is the people, too. But the house demands attention from time to time.

This time it was the roof clamoring for renewal. The shingles had been put on some 35 years ago, I would guess by their looks.

So we signed a contract with R & L Siding and in one day with a crew of about seven and cranes and air hammers we had a roof that should keep us dry for a long time.

If this crane were not enough, look at the front porch and see a smaller hoist which was how they discarded the old shingles they ripped off.