Because of my shoulders, back, hip and knees; I toss and turn all night as each sleeping position becomes too painful. Well early in the morning I felt like I had a ton of bricks sitting on my knees only to discover my beagle decided that would be a good place to sleep, so I moved him and drifted back off too sleep with the relaxing sound of raindrops falling outside.
At 6:30 my alarm started going off and I hit the snooze because it is Sunday no need to hurry. As I lay there, not even half awake, listening to the rain and the rumble of thunder it suddenly dawned on me that it was raining. And not just raining gently but coming down pretty hard. I started trying to move, I had to wake up and fast.
Earlier this week I stripped the last of the old shingles off of my roof and put down tar paper on the side of the house, in the final stretch of reroofing my house. The problem is that there are three vents on that side, two plumbing and on exhaust for the gas hot water heater. So basically I have three holes in my roof and the rain is just running right in and of course dripping out wherever it can get through.
So at 6:40 this morning I am dressed, running out the garage door with a rain coat and my harness on, hat, gloves and this Energizer light on a head band that I have been using to roof in the dark. Pitch black, pouring rain and about half awake at that point I am on the roof fighting with this 50’x30′ tarp. These tarps are hard enough to manage when they are dry and it is daylight; not to mention walking on the steep roof, trying to step on the button cap nails so the tar paper doesn’t rip. Did I mention that I am hurting, never mind that is a constant. So I am up there, moving as carefully as I can trying to spread out this tarp, back down the ladder to get some rope so I can get it tied off because I know from experience one good gust of wind and back to square one.
It took almost 45 minutes to get the tarp untangled, spread out and tied down. I think it might have gone faster if my hands were not as swollen as they are this morning, felt like I was trying to work with a pair of mittens one, in fact typing all of this with my thumbs because I can barely move my fingers. So I am sitting here typing this up still trying to get warm, by the way cheap Coleman rain coats from wal-mart are not worth buying. Trying to decide if I am up to going to church this morning but hurting more than usual.