Roof project

We needed to fix the attic/roof vents for our buyers. As you can see the edges have broken off due to the heating and cooling. It was cheaper and quicker to do it ourselves. So I got all the stuff from the big box store and took it up to the roof. 

First I used the crowbar and pulled all the shingles and existing plastic vents off. The hardest part was getting the first shingles off, once I got them off it went pretty fast. Except for the whole rain thing. It started raining after I got the first 2 vents off. In order to make it so the water didn't get inside I had to put the new ones on right after I took the old ones off. 
 Here's what it looked like after I got all the pieces on.

I then had to cut the shingles into singles. 

Then  put them on the vents. 

Finished product. Not quite the right color. But I really don't care. Since Sean is still injured and not allowed to do anything I had to do this all by myself. It didn't take too long. Only about 4 hours. Probably would have been less if I would have had help. I probably could have waited until later in the week to get some help, but my anxiety was out of control wanting to get this done. So I just did it. One less thing to worry about. It was actually the last thing on the list that needed to be done for the buyers. whew. 

Anticipation and anxiety, all rolled into one

We sold our house!
The inspection went ok. The report came to us at 10pm, after I was asleep, but Sean woke me up anyway. So after I heard what they wanted fixed I freaked out and couldn't get back to sleep until 3am. And really, they only wanted some minor things fixed. Well, minor except for having the roof vents replaced. grrr. So I'll be working on those tomorrow. Everyone thinks I'm crazy because I plan on doing them myself, unless someone comes over to help. Which is really dumb because I've put on a few roofs before. Not the vents themselves, but it's not like they are hard. seriously easiest job I'll have to do. eh, whatever. I just need it to not rain while I have it torn apart before I put the new ones on. The appraiser was there today, hopefully he will allow us to sell it for the price we want and not knock it down a few thousand. We can't afford that. Either way, we'll be selling it, so I guess it really doesn't matter.

As for Sean, he's getting better. The bad part is, he feels he's getting better and is now seriously bored and itching to do stuff. And he's driving me crazy! We see the orthopedic doctor on July 1 and hopefully he will tell Sean he can start doing physical therapy and other stuff so he can stop going nuts.
We have a place to live in Logan finally. We were going to head to Idaho, then come back & find a place to live and leave our stuff in storage for a little while. But then we decided that might not work. So we looked at finding a place on line from 3000 miles away. It sucks! The good part is that I have friends in Logan that are willing to look at places for us so we didn't get sold a box of rocks :) Our biggest problems were that A) we currently have 2 cats and B) we want to get a dog once we are there. We didn't need a big place, 2 bedrooms would have been fine, but the whole animal thing took it to a whole other level. And my animals are cleaner than some peoples kids!! Anyway. We thought we had a line on a place and had a friends check it out, her first words were, "It's gross" lol, guess we aren't getting that house. And for $800 a month I would expect central air, there wasn't any. And then someone tried to scam us using a legit house from another website. some people. So finally we found a decent place fairly close to campus that doesn't mind pets. We have to pay extra for the pets but we'll survive. And we will be able to get a dog once we are there. The only down side was we had to pay for an extra 2 weeks rent because they couldn't legally "hold" the property for us. Which is weird because another property I talked to said if we paid $100 toward the deposit it would hold the place for us... hmmmm

We are leaving in 10 days. It's crazy. We need to get all of our stuff out of our storage place, and put it somewhere in the house. Luckily most of the stuff in the house now is in boxes. We also gave a bunch of stuff away, so we no longer have enough furniture to fill a 4 bedroom, it's only 2 now. Which is good, cause that means the truck will be cheaper.

My anxiety was on overdrive because of the fixes we needed to make before we leave and finding a place to live and now making sure everything gets packed in the right place, and, and , and, and. Can't wait to get to Logan and unpack!!

I'll post some pics of the move once it happens. Then I get to post all kinds of pics of fun things we will be doing once we get to Logan. I am so excited to get out there.

You would think we like to complicate things

Over Memorial Day weekend we headed to visit my sister in Akron. 2 hours away, no big deal, we'd be back before dark and Sean could go to work on Monday. It was not meant to be. After enjoying a beautiful day with the family, we played catch with the baseball and frisbee, even roasted some marshmallows. Then we decided to head over to this place called Virginia Kendall Ledges. Really cool, even has a bat cave. There is an easy trail down to the bottom, which is about 40 feet straight down if you are standing on the top ledge. There are also big rocks in the middle that could conceivably be used to jump on and make it to the bottom...."the easy way." Sean decided he wanted to take the easy way. It didn't end well. He got about half way down, went to jump onto a lower rock and slid off. Hit his head, may or may not have flipped (I say he didn't, but my sister says he did. Weird that we were standing right next to each other when we saw him fall). He managed to fall the last 10 feet in a sitting position, landing on his butt. And that's where things got really fun. My sister, along with at least 2 other people, called 911, and I took off down the trail to find him. When I got there he was in some serious pain and there was blood all over his head. We got the bleeding stopped and he was flat on his back and no one would let him move. Luckily he could feel and move his legs and arms. Then the park rangers came and the fire and rescue squad, he was carried out on a backboard. The trip up was not as quick as the one down. The rescue people were worried about his head and breathing. He was holding his breath because of the pain but they kept peppering him with questions. He said he really wanted to tell them to shut up :) Because he kept holding his breath to fight the pain they thought he was having trouble breathing and decided to med-evac him out of there. We gave everyone a Memorial Day to remember. I wasn't allowed on the helicopter so Candy drove me over to the hospital, then took Gregg and the kids home. By the time I got to him they had taken several x-rays and a CAT scan. He only had a minor concussion but did have a burst compression fracture in the L2 vertebra. They were going to admit him for observation for at least the night to make sure no pieces had broken off or anything else crazy was going on. Then they also told us that he couldn't leave without a fancy new back brace. Because of the holiday they could measure him for the brace on Monday, but wouldn't be able to make it until Tuesday. Sigh. So we got to spend 2 days in the hospital. I had been trying to figure out what to do since we were 2 hours from home but my sister only lives 5 minutes from the hospital. Then we found out that we would be there for 2 days, so I decided to drive home. Oh, yeah, and they cut all Sean's clothes off, so he needed some new ones to put on before he could even leave the hospital. He would have fit in Gregg's (brother in law) things, if I had decided to just stay, but now we didn't need to do that. So on my way home in the dark the bugs were awful! I haven't had to deal with bugs on the windshield like that in a long time. but that's beside the point. When I was about 5 miles from home the check engine light came on along with the 4wd light. Awww CRAP!!! I was hoping it was nothing. I got home safely and then the next morning I packed what we needed and headed out. And the check engine light was still on. sigh. I stopped and put some coolant in it, hoping the light would go off. no such luck. So then I turned around and went back home and switched cars. The other car is not nearly as comfortable for Sean, but it was all I had. I finally got back to Akron and went to see Sean. We were able to get in touch with a Bishop in Akron so the Elders in the area where able to come give him a blessing. Not sure how much he remembers, he was pretty out of it. I was actually there for about 4 hours and he slept the entire time. They gave him some serious drugs. He was flat on his back and they weren't giving him any solid food, he was on liquids for 2 days. On Tuesday he seemed a little more aware and they were telling us we would be out sometime in the afternoon. One of the gazillion doctors that came in decided that he could have his bed raised to 30 degrees and he could have some solid food for lunch. Then the guy with the brace came and the PT people wanted to make sure he could walk with it on. Once he did that we were allowed to go. He was detached from all the tubes, given a prescription for some more pain meds and wheeled out the door. Sean was able to get in the car, the truck would have been easier, but eh, we got home. Sean actually slept the majority of the trip since he took some pain pills before we left. I don't even want to think about the bills for this one. I was able to take the truck to the shop and they found out that one of the valves is leaking and it's going to be a major project to fix. sigh, just what we need. On a good note, we have another buyer that gave us a solid offer, so we should be able to leave by the end of the month. We should know for sure in 2 weeks how the wind is blowing on this one. Something has to go right for once!!