The rainy season and lessons for a procrastinator
The rainy season may have begun in southern Oregon, and I have still not fixed a leaking part of my roof, which covers a room of my house we call the sun room because of its exposure to the setting sun. I’ve known this particular flattish section of roof (it’s a converted porch) had a problem for at least three years. But I ignored it because it never actually leaked — until last winter.
The warning signs were in the popping nails on the rolled roofing, plus the rolled roofing was very old. It’s a job I needed to farm out to a company who could strip off the old roofing and hot mop on some new rolled roofing. But even though it finally leaked over the winter, I ignored making the simple phone call to a local roofing company that could take care of this problem in an afternoon. Finally I called them a month ago, only to have to wait until they came out, inspected it, mailed me a bid, had me accept it and give them a down payment, then put me on their schedule. I’ve got two more weeks to wait until they get around to my roof.
The rains of the last two days have been heavy enough to start the leak flowing. Oh shame! No excuse for my procrastination. I’ve already allowed the leak to damage the drywall of the ceiling and one wall, so I’ll have to go in and repair them after the new rolled roofing is put on.
A good lesson for me I guess. I usually don’t procrastinate, but hop right on a project. But the expense of hiring someone else to fix the roof made me hesitate. Now I’ll have to pay the roofing company, plus have a bunch of inside repair work to do myself.
The rain of the last two days brought a lot of cold air with it. It has hovered around 48 degrees, not quite enough to light the first woodstove fires of the season, but pretty close. I loaded both our stoves, but I’ll leave it up to Lenie to give the go-ahead to fire them.
Can America Be Saved from Stupid People
My book of columns, Can America Be Saved from Stupid People, has become BHM’s all time fastest seller. It is the 14th anthology we’ve produced, and where most of our anthologies take a little more than a year to recoup the money we spend to print them, this one took only six months. And it’s still selling well. I think the fast sales owe a lot to its very catchy title. Overall sales, however, have yet to surpass any of our 11 big anthologies. If you’d like to order it, click HERE.
Preorder the Thirteenth Year Anthology for $15
Speaking of the big anthologies, the Thirteenth Year Anthology is our newest big anthology going to print, and the November/December issue will have an ad for it for people who want to preorder it for $15 per copy. Readers of this blog can also order the book for $15 and be among the first to receive it — if you buy it NOW!
We expect the new anthology to retail for $22.50. In fact, all the anthologies will go up to that price, reflecting our increasing printing and postage costs, so if you need any anthologies to round out your compilation, get them now before the price goes up. Just CLICK HERE to order the Thirteenth Year Anthology.
We’ll mail the new anthology to you by the beginning of December, which will be just in time to make a nice Christmas present for someone.
