The other day I was working around in the workshop in my garage and needed to go up in the attic for something. Usually when I go up into the rafters I carry a flashlight. I have one of those lights that I need to keep shaking and knocking otherwise it does not work. So, as usual, the light went out, but I could see just fine in my attic. Uh-oh, that’s bad. One thing you don’t want in an attic is lots of sunlight especially with the first big El Nino storm two days away!
The lots in my old neighborhood are set up so that the homes and garages sometimes sit only inches from the property lines. What that means is that I rarely see the south side of my garage. The north side looks just fine. The roof is old but quite intact. However the south side faces my neighbor’s yard. It is conveniently out of my daily sight. When I climbed up on the roof and looked at my neighbor’s view of my roof I was at first astounded, then flooded with embarrassment. The sun over the last few summers had baked half of my roof to a char-broiled crisp. There are, or were, three layers of roofing material. The top layer had almost completely worn away, piece by piece into my neighbor’s yard. There were several places where I could see the original wood shingles from 1923. And there were a couple of large holes. I was hoping that my neighbor was not at home when I tried to assess my roof and cover the biggest holes with some remnant shingles, but no such luck. “Sucks when a roof gets old,” I heard from down to my left.
There must be entire chapters in Proverbs written about the fool?
“For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them..” Proverbs 1:32 (Emphasis mine)
Ouch!
