Thursday, October 03, 2002

Roof


For some reason the milestone of a new roof made me feel like we were on the home stretch. Once the roof was done, the walls would start, then the cabinets, and paint, and before you know it my husbands would move on to new wives.

It started hard, new husbands, young ones who acted without thinking then tried to cover their mistakes instead of fixing them. They hacked off a tree branch instead of cutting it cleanly, then they stepped through the ceiling of the house while taking off the roof. The "roof off" husbands, work for the "roof on" husbands, but they do not work together. The roof on husbands had to fix the problems left by the other husbands and were not happy.

The ceiling is fixed. I got a brownie point for being a normal customer. I told the ceiling fixing husband (different than roof on or roof off) that it wasn't new before and I didn't expect it to be new now, I just wanted it fixed and to look nice. It is and it does.
The roofing husbands are good, but like a just divorced person, I wonder if it would be better if "my first husband had been here". Probably not. Time to move on.