Summer Progress

We are halfway through August, and have been remiss in updating our blog post...
It really was time to take a couple of breaks, so we made a couple of road trips out to Oregon: Nathan"s 20th high school reunion- and a wedding for Nathan's cousin Peter.

Before leaving for the first trip, Nathan got all the roof shingling done.  We had posted earlier that the roof was done, but that was just for the main house.  There are 3 porch roofs that still needed completion, and our dear friend Kip came up from Cody and gave a real helping hand and we got ALL the roofing done!

Thank you Kip!

For a little extrra photo documentation, we include the following for your enjoyment and appreciation:

The roofs are too high for a regular conveyor lift, and Nathan was NOT interesed in hauling every bundle of shingles up the ladder, so we purchased our shingles from Thomae Lumber- they have a super cool lift truck that JUST fits along side our house...

The boom arm on this truck is great! They can lift up a whole pallette of shingles at a time...

Or even just a single bundle of starter shingles...

All the way to the top of the roof ridge, where you can reach it easily!

So that's it! The story of our roofing project!  Sheet rock has been going on for a couple of weeks now, in between road trips.  More on that later...