Last year, our neighborhood was hit with a series of fairly strong hail storms. The most memorable one hit around 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning. The loud cracking noise coming from the roof woke me, and fairly convinced me that the house was on fire. Baseball-sized hail tends to make quite a racket, I can attest.
Many of the houses in our area needed a new roof. Perhaps a third of our subdivision, and slightly south of us, almost entire subdivisions. The roofing trucks were on the prowl, like sharks looking for prey, many with out of state plates.
We got conflicting opinions on the state of our roof, so we put it off. With the one year mark coming up, and the accompanying insurance claim deadline, we had the adjuster out. Yep, we need a new roof, in the $10,000 range.
Our eighth anniversary is coming up:
A contemporary or modern 8th anniversary present has a theme of Lace and Linen.
The flowers associated with the 8th anniversary are Clematis Perhaps our eight anniversary gift will be a bill for a new roof on some nice linen paper! Ugh. Let's pray for a year of no hail, please. At least not the big stuff.
