Saturday, February 15, 2014

Sickles Of Ice

     Tam's three-foot icicle from yesterday?  It's a four-footer now:

     The north side of Roseholme Cottage is particularly afflicted.
     Sunday, I may have to shovel the roof.

9 comments:

Matthew said...

Shoveling a roof can only end in tears for grown-ups.

Aren't there entrepreneurial local youths with flexible joints and strong bones available?

BGMiller said...

Get a snow rake. Lowes and Home Despot should both have them. Working from ground level and swinging a twenty foot aluminum pole with a scraping head is much easier than anything involving ladders, shovels, sloped work surfaces, gravity, and frozen ground.


Ask me how I know this.


BGM

Gewehr98 said...

Ice dams on the roof. No fun.

Phssthpok said...

Shovel the roof? And lose all that wonderful insulation?

HERESY!

Roberta X said...

I was thinking more of the ice dams that are forming. I'm going to have to hack out a better path for the water to go away.

Bob's Grandson said...

In a couple of days our roofs will be clear.

Roberta X said...

It's what happens between then and now that frets me.

Roberta X said...

It's what happens between then and now that frets me.

Matthew said...

Well obviously be careful of falls, and of damaging the shingles. But mostly of falls. :)