Up on the roof......

 7:40 am - Tuesday - April 7th - TWW - 45° F, humidity 18%, cloud cover 1%, wind 2 mph out of the southeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 75° F.  On this date in 2015 TLE and I hiked the Honaker Trail from Goosenecks State Park down 1,000 feet....

....to the San Juan River....one of my favorite boondocking memories.  The view this morning....

Before we began our workday TLE and I took another of those 1 mile out and back walks....our 18th of that variety.....

....we averaged just under 3 mph, and for the first time this winter I wore a short sleeve t-shirt.

After a many days of procrastination made easier by frigid, windy days, it was time to climb the ladder to the roof of the CONEX to finally reseal the areas Charles and I had removed  old caulk from....mainly the area where the barn is attached to the CONEX, and the center seam where the north and south roof panels meet in the middle....

Where the CONEX roof (right) joins the barn roof (left)

There were a few tunes being played on my Bluetooth speaker

The center seam....yeah, it looks ugly, but it is now SEALED

.....it took me less than an hour to get it all sealed.  I know there are a few screw holes to be caulked, and I will take care of them Tuesday.  Below is a look at our next barn roof project....

....that 2 x 4 is totally rotten, and will be replaced soon...in fact, the new 2 x 4 which will be used for this repair is in the 1st and 2nd pictures above....my Bluetooth speaker is sitting upon it.

The Drifters  - "Up on the roof"

I spent some time later in the day attempting to assemble some scaffolding which we found on the property last Winter....

.....there are actually two of these, but the other one is missing some critical pieces, such as cross members of the same length.  There are longer cross members, but that would make it impossible to stack them to the desired height.  We wanted to put the diesel fuel gravity tank (below) on them, but now that only one can be used I'm not sure 4 feet tall will be enough height.  I guess it is back to the drawing board.

....around 3 pm Christina, Charles and Phyllis' oldest daughter, arrived for an overnight stay on her way north to Provo, UT.  TLE made Meat Loaf for dinner with sides of smashed potatoes and coleslaw.  I neglected to memorialize our dinner with a picture.  We enjoyed endless conversation with a side of good food until after 5 pm when we bid our adieus and headed home for the evening to watch the final game of this year's 'March Madness' between UCONN (#2), and Michigan (#1). One could tell early on that Michigan was clearly the better team, but UCONN's inherent tenacity kept the game in hand.  Michigan held a 4 point lead at half time, and grew that lead to as many as 11 points in the 2nd half, but with a couple of minutes to play UCONN got it down to 4 points....they had a chance, however, that would be as close as they got.  The final score was Michigan 69 and UCONN 63.

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