Cut You Deep and Wide...

Huh? So a letter, Dear sir or madam, we have summarily, without further warning CANCELLED your home insurance. Huh? What? Why? How? When? Shit. Reading on, this house! Our "new" abode! What?! Good gawd, what gives? Then the not-so-trivial details reveal themselves:
1. Paint is peeling, er ah, check!
2. The roof tiles are curled, uh...check!
3. The gutter leaks, hmmm, check!
They don't love us anymore. Shit! Merde!
My list is far longer than theirs but they cancelled the damned insurance over these THREE (3) infractions unknown by us before hand! Really! So Kelly called the nice Framer's Insurance Group folks whom we have been insured in this house for the last 16 years...yes...16 years to determine how we get it back. (Hint: Get to work Lute!)
So we have about a month, less today than when we got the letter last Thursday. So up to the roof with the extension ladder lifted from the weeds at the Swamphouse, now empty. Back and up I go to determine the cause of the gutter leak. Why did I choose that place to start? Well it's up there and so is the north facing roof that needs it's tiles Un-mossed and thusly...UN-Curled. Shit and Merde! Time to empty it of the accumulation of years of leaves and dirt and pull the weeds growing in the thick of it like a long skinny pasture-in-the-sky. Dirt flies! Weeds fly! Moss has embedded itself in the myriad of spaces between the roofing tabs...removed that too as that is the cause of the curling as I have determined. I don't want to crawl every inch of this section of the roof to remove it but I may! Damn! 4 hours of digging along and I'm about 1/2 way. Caulk the joint where two sections meet and clean out the drain to the ground and I'm done for the day.

Kelly started on the scrapping of the loose paint on the east (sunny) side. She says she still has about a gallon of the paint from when it was last painted. Good. I'll get to do the high part and she'll do the low. Great fun this house fixin' stuff.

So the South 40 plantings are coming along, some have sprouted and I've planted others to fill in the blank areas. It's good. So far it's been smooth going as no dogs, raccoons, birds have dug anything up, no moles, voles or gophers in evidence either. I water every other day unless it rains. It's fun to garden like this, not too much work or money for great reward.