Roof Repair

Dad picked up 20' worth of scaffolding last Wednesday and brought it over to the house. We have it for a week - which is the minimum rental time - so begins the efforts to repair the damage to the roof caused by the squirrels and chipmunks.
By Friday we had the scaffolding up. Went to Home Hardware Saturday morning and got a piece of sheet metal dryer vent pipe and some roofing patch putty stuff while it rained. Just had to cut off the parts of the sheet metal that made it pipe-like and then cut it to size. Luckily by the time I was ready to climb the scaffolding the rain had stopped. Cut and bent the sheet metal to fit under the shingles and behind the eaves trough, and secured everything with construction adhesive. Then coated everything on top with the roofing patch putty - went better than expected! Tore down the scaffolding and reloaded it into the trailer to go back with Dad so that he could use it to cut down an offending tree branch near his house. Going to put a bunch of "Critter Ridder" in the attic and continue to keep the squirrels away by live-trapping until the first heavy snow.
With the rain, I felt it was okay to start a fire in the "new" fire pit in the back to get rid of some of my scrap wood - basically anything pine (which isn't good in the wood stove) and a bunch of hardwood that was starting to rot after being left at the bottom of the old wood pile, sunken into the mud. With the new fire pit, I can get rid of the disintegrating fire barrel and clean up the back yard a lot, looks much better. Got me in the mood and really started a back yard clean up. Moved the little tin shed around so that we can use it to store the wood for the woodstove - what a neat idea, dry firewood in the winter, you'd think I would have thought of that sooner! Thanks to Sharon for moving most of the firewood into the shed from under the deck.