Our neighbors on one side of us are getting a new roof. They have been getting the new roof for a week now, but they are still not finished getting it. These are not the neighbors where Henry the wheaten terrier lives. These are the neighbors on the other side of us. They don't have a dog, which is sad, because everybody should have a dog. Or at least a cat.
Anyway, the reason these people have to get a new roof is because their old roof was really, really old. And the reason it was so very old is because there used to be an old couple named Mr. and Mrs. Price who lived in that house, and they didn't do much to fix up the house, on account of maybe they didn't have much money in their old age.
So when Mom first moved into our house, Mr. Price had to have an oxygen tank thing all the time, but Mrs. Price seemed like she was healthier, and she liked to sit outside and read books. Then she surprised everybody by dying first, even though everyone thought Mr. Price would die first. And then after a year or so, he died, too.
And after that, the house was for sale and somebody bought it really cheap because it needed a lot of work. So this guy that bought it did a little work, but he did not fix the roof, and then he sold it again, and the next guy did some more work, but he did not fix the roof either. And then the house was for sale for a long time, and finally a family bought it, and they are the ones who live there now. And this family is made up of a mom named Michelle, who is a fire fighter, and two kids named Katy and Jacob. And no dogs.
So this family has lived there like maybe three years now, and they have been fixing up different parts of the house every year. And now they are finally getting a new roof. And after they get the new roof, they are going to get new paint on the house. We don't know what color the house will be when it is painted, but we hope it won't be white because white is boring.
Anyway, Mom says she has never seen a roofing job take as long as this one is taking but there is a lot of stuff to be done besides the roof, like for instance new trim has to be put on because the old trim is sort of rotten. Also there are only three guys doing this whole job. And the three guys are (1) the long-haired guy who smokes, (2) the shirtless guy with lots of tattoos, and (3) the very friendly Hispanic guy.
Mom didn't get a photo of the shirtless guy, which is kind of sad because he has nice muscles. Not that Mom pays much attention to that sort of thing. Mostly she is interested in his tattoos, but it's kind of hard to see them very well, just looking out our bedroom window. But what we can see for sure is that he has a really big spider tattoo on his back.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is a big huge orange trash thing in the neighbors' driveway, and now it is mostly full of roof trash. Aunt Michelle told Mom that she could put trash in the orange thing, too, if she wanted, so Mom took a rug over there that she was going to throw away, and she put it in the orange thing. The reason Mom had to throw this rug away is because Gabe peed on it while his pee was still really stinky from his UTI, and Mom didn't want to try to clean the rug again because she already had to clean it once before when the same thing happened to it.
Well, okay, that's all I'm going to say about the neighbors' roof. I'm just glad we don't have to get a new roof on our house because it is a noisy, messy thing to have happen right up above your head, and I don't think I would like it very much!
