Kevin's Feeling Better...

All last week, Kevin was sick with a flu

he picked up on the way home from France.

With a fever, cough, and aches, he wasn't doing much of anything

except resting--and fretting that he wasn't

able to get the garage siding done while the weather was so nice.

As you can see, he's feeling better, though he's still not 100%.  

He used the siding from up above to repair the damaged spots down below

(and found a chuck of metal pipe embedded in the wood behind one of the holes.)

Then, up went the new shakes. 

Fortunately, Kevin remembered to put on his hat

to shield his neck from sunburn. 

Too bad he forgot about the backs of his calves in this all-day project.

He's going to have hurting legs tomorrow morning,

from sunburn AND the countless times climbing up and back down,

and having to lean into the ladder for balance.

I LOVE the end result of all his labor!

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And now all is repaired from the mail box incident...

--A bit of adversity that brought about some good things.

Several neighbors stopped by to comment on how nice

everything looks, and one (he's an attorney that works for

the county), said that it looks like all the kids will plead

guilty and there won't be a trial.

I hope the judge has a lot of wisdom to sort out how

best to determine if they learned their lesson and won't ever do anything like this again.