Roof Roof Is Here To Stay

A New Roof To Shelter Us....
We have plenty of shade out in the country.  Trees totally surround us.....and those trees mean lots of shade.  After years of shade, algae can grow.  It grows on the sides of the trees, on the rocks, on the mailbox and on the roof for Pete's sake.  For the last few years we had noticed that the algae or moss of whatever it was called was building up on the roof.  We bought everything we could find to remove it, and even power washed the roof many times.....but to no avail.  I was hoping it wouldn't grow tall so I would have to somehow mow the algae on the roof.

When the black mold stains and streaks start running down the roof, it made the house look like it belonged in the ghetto.....it looked bad!  That algae stuff is horrible.....especially when the shingles aren't necessarily worn out, but with the algae, the shingles might as well have been worn out!

So away we went to the roof store.  We spent  a little extra and got really good quality dark brown shingles, which were lifetime warranty and algae resistant.  We loaded up a few of the shingle bundles (and decided to have the rest delivered), stacked them, and attempted to do the roof..................yikes....what a job.  The carrying of the 80 pound shingle packages was almost enough to put hubby in the grave.   It didn't take long to discover that we needed to hire it done....the roof had a 7 point roof slant and that made it scary....especially on the back side which was about as tall as the Sears building.

After calling many roofers and getting enormously high cost bids due to being in the country as well as a steep roof, we found a reasonably priced and licensed roofer.   This weekend the two roofers came. On Saturday they got all of the old shingles torn off and the felt replaced and started shingling.  Sunday morning they were here early and worked almost non-stop.   They had to work with lights for the last hour or so but the roof got done.   Just in time for the rain coming in. 

I guess the moral of my story is .....  when you get old, attempting to do a roof  installation yourself is just plain silly.  It will make you old fast.....and your joints will hurt for days.  Don't be a tight-wad....spend the money and get it done by someone who does it for a living.  It will save your sanity and you can sit back in a lawn chair and watch!

From ugly stained roof........ (you can click on pictures for detail)

And the scary back side drop-off.....

To the Roof Process......tearing off the shingles and felt

New Felt on and starting shingles on the back, scary side.....

This morning.....mission accomplished....new roof with leaves already on it.......fall is here....let her come!

Old Tyme Greenview

1947 - B. C. Armeling sold his hardware and implement business to Harold Baugher of Fancy Prairie.  A contract was let to Hayes and Sons for a new well for Greenview, the well to be 153 feet deep, cost to be $1792.  Vertus Barnett   perfected a gadget to save gasoline on farm machinery, specifically tractors.  It was called the EconoCap and was first patented in 1952.  Lova Estill purchased the barber shop and building from Webb Madison.  William Davision began a new enterprise as a bulldozer contractor.   Andrew Fitzgerald was appointed the acting Postmaster and later confirmed as the postmaster.

1948 - Gerald Meehan bought the Corner Cafe from Clinton Lance.  Later his brother Bimmie and his wife, Emma, purchased the business.  Bimmie also operated the recreation hall.  William Beauchamp opened a garage in the Korah Roberts building.  Richard Ratliff opened a welding  shop.  Jack Luscher and Clyde Grizzel purchased the Greenview Review form Mr and Mrs. Claude Petrie.  Soon Jack bought out Clyde Grizzell. He than ran it with the help of his assistant Ralph Teter.  Construction began on the new Linda Theater.  Carl Miller presented chimes and a Solovox to the Presbyterian Church in memory on his mother Sophia Hallberg Miller.  Leo Garlinger came to Greenview as the band instructor.

Anyone Remember???

I remember seeing this type of wiener mobile when I was a kid.

First constructed in 1936

Gene Autry (with the white hat) and the Holsum Ranch on the Springfield tv station.

One time at the Fort Madison Iowa Rodeo, Gene Autry picked me from the crowd to ride around the arena with him on his horse.  :>)

Recipe

With fall in the air, it makes me want to make all of my pumpkin recipes.  Here's a crowd favorite....a little work involved but worth it!!!  I'm making this for Thanksgiving!

Pumpkin Roll

3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup pumpkin
1 tsp lemon juice
3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chopped pecans

Beat eggs on high speed for 5 minutes. Gradually beat in sugar, stir in pumpkin and lemon juice. Mix together flour, baking powder, salt and spices in a bowl and then fold into the egg/ pumpkin mixture.  Spread on a greased 15x10x1 pan, top with nuts and bake at 350 F. for 15 minutes.

Turn onto a paper towel that has been sprinkled with powdered sugar. Start with narrow end of cake and roll towel and cake together, let cool completely. While cake is cooling make the filling.

Filling

1 cup powdered sugar
4 tbsp butter
1-8 ounce cream cheese
1/2 tsp vanilla

Combine and beat until smooth. Carefully spread on the cooled cake (be careful and not break the cake) and roll cake back up without paper towel. Roll in powdered sugar. Wrap in foil and chill or freeze to make easy to cut. Slice and serve. You can get 2 of these from a large can of pumpkin.

Thought For The Day

Intelligence is the ability

to adapt to change.

--Stephen Hawking

I love trivia information.  Some of these trivial pieces of information are so unbelievable, but they supposedly are true.  When I find something that's so unbelievable, I usually try to tell it to someone to get their reaction....they usually don't believe me.

Here's a few things which I have found over the years.....unbelievable but true.  I have many so in later posts, I will do more.

1.  A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can't. The reasoning I found is that the donkey will struggle and sink but the mule will remain calm and will just be partially stuck.

2.  The words, facetious and abstemious contain all of the vowels and in the correct order. (a-e-i-o-u).

3.  The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.

4.  The longest English word without any vowels is twyndyllyngs (means twins).

5.  Albert Einstein never word socks.

6.  All babies are color blind when they are born.

7.  The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

8.  There is cyanide in apple pipps.

9.  Hummingbirds are the only creatures which can fly backwards.

10.  If you save one penny and double it every successive day  ( on day two you have two pennies and  on day three you have four pennies, etc), by the end of 30 days you will have $5, 368, 708.

Just trivia.....but fun.  My last piece of trivia is.... there are 118 ridges on the circumference of a dime.  See you ..... from Trivia Greenview to wherever you are!

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