YAY!

I do not, as previously feared, have a roof leak!  WHEW!   We had some pretty hefty storms in the forecast for tonight, and the closer it got to the end of my work day, the more it looked like it was going to rain frogs the second I got home from work. So, I raced home, and Kress and I climbed up into the attic armed with flashlights, buckets, and tarps...

...And found nothing.  No drip from the roof.  No evidence whatsoever that the inside of the roof had ever been wet, or the ceiling joists, or the sheetrock over the garage ceiling. Dry as a bone, no staining or warping or wetness at all.  From the outside of the house, the roof was just fine.  On closer inspection, the ceiling in the garage where I thought I'd been painting over wet sheetrock was also A-ok, and showed no signs of ever having been soaking wet.  Once I got my face up there where I could really see it, I realized that it'd just been the paint - it must not have been mixed completely.

I feel a bit silly, but that's overshadowed by how incredibly grateful I feel that I don't have a leak in my roof!  That could have been a nightmare!  Especially since, although my part of town hasn't gotten the pounding that the rest of Austin has been getting this evening, we've gotten some good rain, and lots of it, and there's a bunch more on the way for the next 24 hours or so.  WHEW.

P.S. - while we were up there I did, however, find my two nine-foot wooden flagpoles that I'd given up on ever seeing again.  As soon as I saw them up there, I remembered that I had taken them up there two years ago to poke a clog out of the dryer duct - apparently I just never brought them back down.  Now if I could only remember what I'd wanted to do with them when I realized they were missing... .

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Garage Re-Org Proceeding Apace

The East and West walls have been flipped, as per the sketch I posted the other day.   The garden stuff, and the festival storage stack, have been moved to the West wall where the water filter stuff is;  and the entire workshop/woodshop has been moved to the East wall, which you can see here.

I improvised the shelving with some random junk I had in the garage:  four cinderblocks (from a balcony garden in an apartment a decade ago, some long 2" planks buried in the lumber stack, and a black shelf that I'd built for books a million years ago that had just been taking up space and collecting random @%^# in a corner of the garage.

The walls and ceiling have also been primed.  Yay!  All of this took me six full hours last weekend, but it's done.  Next step, please.

Although, I did discover a bit of a problem: the tape on the sheetrock on the ceiling in another corner of the garage was wet.  Not dripping - and I found no evidence of a drip anywhere underneath the spot - but it was wet enough that it diluted the paint around the tape.  And it hasn't rained heavily in like two weeks, so for it to still be wet, there had to have been standing water in the attic.

I have a roof leak.  

fuck. 

I guess it's not so bad when you think about it - the house is nearly nine years old at this point.  Stuff was bound to start happening eventually.

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