We have TREES and when you have this many, every two or three years the house needs a bath. The slate roof develops black streaks from the algae, I guess. Anyway to keep the place pretty I call Johnny Cantrell who has a son that is agile as a monkey and has no fear of height. Remember when I wrote about Bubba on the roof? A man came to put a cap on one of the chimneys bragging about how he had all of this experience...well he got on the roof, got the cap on the chimney and then refused to get down. We had to call the fire department to get him off the roof. You've heard of cats in a tree being rescued, well this was a man. The firemen were not too happy about it because they were pretty sure he had pulled this once or twice before. It is high, very high, and I don't want to do it, but then I do not profess to years of experience on a three-story house with a slate roof which gets slippery.
We have a couple more things to plan to do to this place before we can relax for the summer. I have cut down on entertaining by not doing Memorial Day or July 4th. We are going to take it down a notch or two and relax for the rest of the summer after all the work that has been done here so far this spring.
Today I have a large pot of green beans, potatoes and corn simmering away. I am surprised they let me buy green bean after the tirade that I wrote about them being flaccid sides in restaurants. For some reason that post got 150 hits in one day. Speaking of food, we had Lucky's take out Chinese last night. It was so good. We had a guest and so we ate outside for the first time this season...ahhh spring.
There is John on the roof.
