Friday November 11, 2011.

Dennis and I headed to Milford for an over night trip to help work on the Milford house.  For those of you who don't know the view from the front porch of the house faces the city's cemetery. My grandpa planted every blade of grass and cared for the cemetery as a Sexton for many years. A Sexton is an officer charged with the maintenance of its buildings and/or the surrounding graveyard.

Yesterday was Veterans day! When we pulled up we had just missed the Veterans Day Ceremony in the Cemetery. I did take a few pictures of all the flags that were put on all the graves. Each of the Armed Forces were represented with a larger individual flag. Towards the end of the day just before dusk, droves of individuals from town came to the cemetery to remove the flags. Thank you to all the veterans out there! I am so grateful for the veterans of our country and all they do to keep us safe! My dad was in the Marine Corp! Semper Fi daddy!

Corde, Regan and Hunter removed the roof, while Dennis and I worked on the ground picking up shingles, nails, boards, insulation and lots of ah dead things!! Bats, bees and wasps! Yuck!
I think my grandpa Fred had an arsenal of nails. There was a nail about every three inches on most boards. Speaking of nails....later on that subject. That roof was not going anywhere if he had any say in the matter. He created a very sound structure!! Layers of cement  on the front porch and an extra layer just in case two layers were not enough.

As you can see from the pictures, the roof is gone now.The new trusses lay in the street waiting to be installed.  While the boys were peeling off the roof, remnants of the old green shingles fell to the ground. The first shingle on the house were green, which matched the original color of the house which was a light sage green. We filled a 30 Yard trash container to the brim and needed it dumped to be filled again.

About the nails...all day we had been saying watch for nails! While I was clearing the boards in front, Dennis started clearing the boards on the back of the house. I was pulling boards down from the front and on the next to last board I pulled too hard and took a nail to my left leg just above my knee.  Just a scrape... no puncture. Whew! And about five minutes later Dennis came hobbling out from the back yard and he stepped on one! Through the shoe and punctured into the outer fleshy part of the ball of his right foot! Ouch! We decided we better take a trip to the "new" hospital clinic and get a tetanus shot for good measure. There we met new friends, Connie Mayer Barnes, Dr. Ken and Nurse Cutie patootie! No waiting, got right in and super nice people!

After a quick trip to the Ace Hardware store for a halogen work light, traffic cones and gloves we headed back to the house to finish clearing the boards. I love the Ace Hardware store! They carry everything there and then some. Blenders, guns, ammo and traffic cones! Who knew!