What a LONG day!

I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again.  We really do have the BEST friends and neighbors.  We had a bunch of help taking our old roof off the front slope of the house.  We loaded it all into Rich's new trailer and it got hauled away to the dump.  

We started early one Saturday morning.  It went surprisingly fast!  First they ripped all the old stuff off, and then repaired a few of the roof boards.  We saved the back for another day.

The sky was grey and overcast for most of the day, and I kept thinking it was going to rain on us.

Once the shingles were off, Rich started framing out over the new entrance just a little bit.

You can see it better from this angle.

Then he built a nice little peak over the top.

Then sheeted it so it could be shingled.

Putting the metal flashing down the gutters, and the roof edge.

Meanwhile,  this is what was happening up on the roof of the addition.

It sure helped to have a couple different crews working.

Maren and Carlee had so much fun being the helpers, they spent the whole day up on the roof.

Here they are peeking over the edge in the backyard.  Look how high up they are!!

SO CUTE!!  You wouldn't catch me that close to the edge!

You can tell the sun is starting to set in the backyard and they're only half finished this part.

This is what it looked like when they were 3/4 finished.

And this is what it looked like outside when they finally were finished.

Like I said, it was a LONG day.  I am so grateful for everyone's help.  I hope I fed them well enough, and had enough drinks for them to make it all worth it!  We had Homemade Chicken/Vegetable soup and Herb Bread for lunch, and then for supper - when they were all done - we had Burgers with all the fixins.

On Monday they were back at it, finishing the back side of the house.  Once again, they tore everything off and slid it down the makeshift slide, into the trailer below.

They had to replace all the plywood along the bottom edge.  And then they shingled it all.

Sorry I don't have any pictures of the finished product, but you get the idea.  What a BIG job!  I'm so grateful to have it finished, and we had wonderful weather to do it in!