The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[Running Bear]

OK, I'm back. We had quite the series of storms here. I shut down here almost immediately after my 4:16pm post. Power went out about thirty minutes later. I was in back watching 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' at the time. The outage caught VGER in mid sentence or shall I say mid-threat (give me what I want or I'll kill everything on the Earth) so it was no bad thing. I put on my headlight and went around and turned on the emergency lights. They're in the bedroom, bathroom, train/computer room. Then I sat back, picked up a book (After Worlds Collide) and picked up where I left off during the last power outage. I'd read for ten minutes, let my eyes rest for about five minutes then read for ten minutes, rest the eyes for five minutes and just kept repeating the cycle. I stopped and marked my page (about eleven pages farther on from where I started) when the power came back on a little after 7:30. I had stopped at a few points to get something to eat and drink and make a visit to the throne room. I know now that the window in the west wall of the bedroom (under where the tree landed) leaks. I've got to fix that. Also have to get that roof fixed! Those damaged steel sheets are still up there and the over-roof frame hasn't been repaired. No way can I do it. I go up a ladder and I'll probably split the side of my foot open then my nurse and my family will probably kill me. I can't trust my nephew to do it. He'll be in a hurry to go to some party or go and see if he can get his truck and ATV's stuck in some mud hole and he'll botch the job in spades. All it is just sistering a good 2x4 to the busted one and replacing the two steel sheets. Those of course need to be cut to length, pre-drilled, put in place and screwed down. Nothing hard about it. It just takes time. Shoot, my father and I did the whole roof in half a day back in '06 and that included tarring the overlap of the sheets. Thirteen sheets in all.