The cedar shake shingles are all removed now. It took 5 men a day and a half to do it. Beating each tile with a hammer until it crumbled and fell to the ground in huge piles of giant tooth picks. The property looked like the house had exploded. Wishful thinking I guess. The lower third of the house was covered by a thin cement called parging. The previous owners had painted it brown. It was now peeling, cracking and crumbling. In order for the siding company to cover it with vinyl siding they have to nail wooden strips to the parging so they can attach the siding to it. Of course... it will cost more. But it will be worth it... I hate that parging. The satellite TV men are coming today to remove that obscene dish they hooked up right smack in the front of the house years ago and re-locate it to a less noticable position on the roof. I have no idea what they were thinking at the time. The landscaper is starting one of the retainer walls on the front lawn today. He's going to use EP Henry stone bricks. The pictures of them in their catelog are beautiful. He says they'll last forever. A thousand years from now my wall will be featured on National Geographic. "The thousands on tiny wood chips buried deep within the soil suggest that there was a great explosion. Apparently all that remained was this beautiful wall and an ancient weather station a few hundred yards away..." Sorry. I think my mind is going. Probably out looking for my sanity which left yesterday morning. Maybe that explains why I decided to tear down the wallpaper in the master bathroom before we even finished the attic closet. All I wanted to do was re-paper or paint it. But once the paper was off I could see that there were gaps between every piece of plaster board. Whoever put them up didn't use greenboard either... a must if the walls are in a bathroom. Probably why the room had a tendency to get mouldy. Black Toxic Mold no doubt. I'm sure I'm being poisoned as we speak...
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