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Raindrops are falling on my head

Remember the ceiling leak? Way back when?

Well, yesterday we did get around to finding that. I had been such an Eeyore about it . Poor Aaron was overwhelmed with my visions of the snow and ice and rain and everything else that would cover us this winter if we did not find and fix it imMEDiately.

I was being pretty grouchy.

Some days are like that. One of us is motivated and the other is not.

This weekend, it was my turn to wring my hands and moan about the house, fret about our camping with a mortgage, and want to pull the covers over my head and hide. Being the more dramatic (read: royal pain) of the two of us, I tend to moan a little louder and sigh a little more deeply. Therefore, I am Eeyore.

Aaron, demonstrating the good sportsmanship that he is famous for, takes the bucket of water to the roof.

We know where the water was dripping when it made it INside, but that doesn't mean that is where the leak is OUTside. Water is famous for leaking into a roof and then traveling down rafters or other things, falling vertically somewhere lower than the leak.

So, Aaron took the water to the roof and--starting low--began to pour it onto the roof below where we thought the leak was. I kept an eye, and a tissue, on the underside to check for the leak.

Eventually, bingo! Found it. And patched it using "roof tar."

No more buckets on the floor, please.

And no more cranky Eeyore, please.

Posted by jeanne on September 12, 2004 at 4:37 PM (3)

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