weekend notes
Jun. 22nd, 2008 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynFriday morning I took Donna's car in for an oil change, and walked over to Lowes in the same shopping center while waiting for it to be done. Picked up a marigold and a tray of red-and-pink celosias at half-price, as well as some seeds on closeout for next year. I also purchased some fungicide for the apple trees, as they have developed a terrible case of apple rust and most of the fruit is falling off prematurely this year. sigh.
My major project for the day involved going up on the roof and sealing up the cracks in the flashing around the roof vents. This was something that the home inspector said we needed to have done when we had the house looked over before buying it last year, since the cracked seals around the vents could let in rain and moisture. When I got up there I could see what he meant: around two of the air vents, the rubber seals were heavily cracked and there was little "seal" left around the pipes. I applied a liberal amount of roofing cement around the broken seals, which will hopefully keep out the rain for another couple of years, at which point I'll either have to go up and reapply the cement again, or hire a professional to replace all the seals. I took some before-and-after pictures, but they're not very interesting visually so I won't be uploading them, will just hold on to them for reference. I also cleaned out some of the gutters - we have gutter guards which keep out the leaves, but in a couple of spots they'd curved upward and let in debris. I also threw some small branches off the roof that had accumulated up there. Getting up and down wasn't fun for me, since the roof is high enough that my fear of heights starts to kick in, but I managed to make it to the lowest point of the roof and clamber up and around from there. I'm just glad I don't have to do that everyday.
In the evening we went to see a nice production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pintafore" at Wolf Trap. The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet; on Saturday we slept in late after being up past midnight for the play, and I planted the marigolds and celosias in our garden out front after getting back from jogging in the morning.
My major project for the day involved going up on the roof and sealing up the cracks in the flashing around the roof vents. This was something that the home inspector said we needed to have done when we had the house looked over before buying it last year, since the cracked seals around the vents could let in rain and moisture. When I got up there I could see what he meant: around two of the air vents, the rubber seals were heavily cracked and there was little "seal" left around the pipes. I applied a liberal amount of roofing cement around the broken seals, which will hopefully keep out the rain for another couple of years, at which point I'll either have to go up and reapply the cement again, or hire a professional to replace all the seals. I took some before-and-after pictures, but they're not very interesting visually so I won't be uploading them, will just hold on to them for reference. I also cleaned out some of the gutters - we have gutter guards which keep out the leaves, but in a couple of spots they'd curved upward and let in debris. I also threw some small branches off the roof that had accumulated up there. Getting up and down wasn't fun for me, since the roof is high enough that my fear of heights starts to kick in, but I managed to make it to the lowest point of the roof and clamber up and around from there. I'm just glad I don't have to do that everyday.
In the evening we went to see a nice production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pintafore" at Wolf Trap. The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet; on Saturday we slept in late after being up past midnight for the play, and I planted the marigolds and celosias in our garden out front after getting back from jogging in the morning.
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