Alternate Girl-style Methods
Sometimes I am forced to use original ways of solving problems, because I'm not strong enough to do it the guy way.
Jeremy had no problem prying the boards off the edge of the roof. (It's called "Facia" and it has gutters attached to it.) After an hour or so, his side of the roof was clean and bare. I couldn't get even one of those giant nails off! I'm so light, compared to a guy, that the ladder kept lifting off the house when I yanked the nails. So I went into the attic and used a 2x4 like a battering ram on the inside of the facia. Twenty feet of facia, guttering and drip edge fell crashing to the ground. I ran out to see the results of all that racket. Twisted, rotten wreckage laid in the yard. Then, I laughed. It was my very first maniacal laugh. Jeremy wandered over and asked if I would be done by 5:00 o'clock. I said, "I'm done now!"
The only problem now was that I had removed every solid place where a ladder could rest. I needed a place somewhere on the house to lean the ladder while installing the new facia. So I got creative again and rented scaffolding. It's monkey bars for grown-ups! I spent 200 dollars for a week and a half.
Then I discovered that you can buy a part for your ladder called a "ladder stabilizer" that allows me to conveniently lean the ladder on the top of the roof. It costs 15 bucks.
If you are living, you better be learning.
Jeremy had no problem prying the boards off the edge of the roof. (It's called "Facia" and it has gutters attached to it.) After an hour or so, his side of the roof was clean and bare. I couldn't get even one of those giant nails off! I'm so light, compared to a guy, that the ladder kept lifting off the house when I yanked the nails. So I went into the attic and used a 2x4 like a battering ram on the inside of the facia. Twenty feet of facia, guttering and drip edge fell crashing to the ground. I ran out to see the results of all that racket. Twisted, rotten wreckage laid in the yard. Then, I laughed. It was my very first maniacal laugh. Jeremy wandered over and asked if I would be done by 5:00 o'clock. I said, "I'm done now!"
The only problem now was that I had removed every solid place where a ladder could rest. I needed a place somewhere on the house to lean the ladder while installing the new facia. So I got creative again and rented scaffolding. It's monkey bars for grown-ups! I spent 200 dollars for a week and a half.
Then I discovered that you can buy a part for your ladder called a "ladder stabilizer" that allows me to conveniently lean the ladder on the top of the roof. It costs 15 bucks.
If you are living, you better be learning.
posted by Anita the Sandy at 4:55 PM
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