Got Roof.

We finally decided with some reservations that Copper was our color choice for the roof. A three inch square metal color swatch looks quite different to a span of hundreds of sq ft., so we called Taylor Metal Products in Salem, the manufacturer of the material for a list of other Copper roofs in our area. Turned out the only one was a commercial building in Philomath, thus we went to view Dairy Queen. We are the first residence to have a metal copper colored roof in the area.....but we love it!



Finished product.


Comparison of house and garage/shop.


View from East side







The sun finally arrived and roofers had to suffer a few hot days. Photo quality not very good because of the glare.

Got Gopher?

The gophers have taken our pasture by storm and we decided that it was high time to call in the professionals. I suggested to our neighbours Simon 10, Mateo 8 and their Dad, Hector, aged, that they undertook the project for a per head bounty. They agreed and the Rodriquez brothers became "You Got' Em, We Git 'Em" gopher trapping experts. With daily due diligence in setting, checking and cleaning traps the brothers now hugely successful are threatening to go public with their company and join Nasdaq. Their start-up investment included more traps, tunnel probes and smooth juicy peanut butter to bait gophers has paid dividends and they are confident that their Summer goal to trap 1,000 gophers can be attained. The turkey vultures, buzzards and crows are very happy too. Meanwhile we have increased our home loan to pay for their services. Got Gophers? "You Got 'Em, We Git 'Em" are the best company this side of the Mississippi.

Mateo and Simon Rodriquez display one days bounty

Aaghh.........


Time to do some clean-up which included getting rid of some of the huge piles of treasures (a.k.a. crap!). Ads on Freecycle.com brought in a few guys with pick-ups who off loaded some wood in an effort to reduce the size of our burn pile which is so large we were concerned that the size of the blaze would burn the house down. Left over Faswall blocks were returned to Shelterworks in Philomath and we made sure that Tim now bigger and looking more like military material everyday earned his keep.