I was going thru my facebook memories today, something I do every day. It’s kinda fun to see what you were doing over the years. Hint: If you have a significant other on FB also, do them and yourself a favor and leave those loving comments for them. If in the event you or they are no longer amongst the living, seeing those comments are good to read. I look for those every day, and sadly, my husband was not one to do much of that. Those I love you’s are very special to me now that he is not here to say them.
With my excellent planning sense, tomorrow, when we are going to get barely above freezing rain all day, is the day the window guys are supposed to come take out my 66 inch wide by 150 inch tall window made with love by the guy that built this house, but now on the verge of total collapse due to dry rot, and replace it with something generic looking but less wobbly. A few hours, they say. They will call us in the morning to tell us when they will show up. LOL.
Minus 51! I can’t imagine. I grew up in Buffalo though and still remember the night it was minus 32. I’d never seen the stars so clear and it hurt to breathe. I didn’t have to pee in an outhouse though, just run from my parents car to the restaurant.
Okay, your problem with water coming through the ceilings is because of 'ice dams'. This was a totally new concept to me when I lived in New England. I think it has to do with snow melting on the roof and then freezing up by the gutters. The water can't get off the roof so it travels inside and to the ceilings. I would have a small problem every once and awhile. But I had to go to friends' houses and help them drill holes in their ceilings so the whole thing wouldn't crash down. They had to 'rake' their roofs, and yes roof rakes are a thing. You need to keep about a foot+ along the gutter line free of snow and ice, so the water does not dam up.
With my excellent planning sense, tomorrow, when we are going to get barely above freezing rain all day, is the day the window guys are supposed to come take out my 66 inch wide by 150 inch tall window made with love by the guy that built this house, but now on the verge of total collapse due to dry rot, and replace it with something generic looking but less wobbly. A few hours, they say. They will call us in the morning to tell us when they will show up. LOL.
Minus 51! I can’t imagine. I grew up in Buffalo though and still remember the night it was minus 32. I’d never seen the stars so clear and it hurt to breathe. I didn’t have to pee in an outhouse though, just run from my parents car to the restaurant.
Sounds like a real fun house. Don’t envy you the gaps, do you get any unwanted visitors?
What comes to my mind, is I'd love to hear the stories that house has to tell.
Yay!! We survived Wyoming Winter 2022-2023
And we're still here for another round.
✋ to you
Okay, your problem with water coming through the ceilings is because of 'ice dams'. This was a totally new concept to me when I lived in New England. I think it has to do with snow melting on the roof and then freezing up by the gutters. The water can't get off the roof so it travels inside and to the ceilings. I would have a small problem every once and awhile. But I had to go to friends' houses and help them drill holes in their ceilings so the whole thing wouldn't crash down. They had to 'rake' their roofs, and yes roof rakes are a thing. You need to keep about a foot+ along the gutter line free of snow and ice, so the water does not dam up.