What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Hotter than all billy here 90 + awful but out air conditioners went in

 

[WthrLady]

Did you do a metal roof @WthrLady have three companies giving me bids this week
told them wanted bids on shingles and metal

No metal costs moe upfront andactually would raise my insurance premiums. It's not as hail resistant as we think it is. And insurance goes up because it will cost more to replace.

We have a high impact rubber asphalt composite roof. Looms like normal shingles but much tougher. 50 year transferable warranty. Will get the generic code for it when it dig out my binder later.

 

[igorsMistress]

They did, but I am still finding nails and garbage. We had two 2500 sq ft rooves to do. It took two full days and looks great. The gutters are getting done either this week or next.

Hail and foxes are on my grrrr list this year. LOL.

Switched roof color from faded red tan to deep charcoal grey. What a wonderful difference. The dark roof makes the stone and brick and trim pop with color! It's also a high impact roof. 50 year coverage and can handle 2 inch hail and 140 mph wind. I just got sick of worry about the dang roof. My insurance premium dropped dramatically with the new type roof.

Possibly not the type but the age is what made your rate drop. If it's a shingle roof it won't last 50 years in your state...it's not necessarily the SIZE of hail, but the intensity of the impact when it hits that does the damage.

Have you asked your insurance agent if your policy can be requoted with your current carrier? Sometimes running a new quote based on updated claims and credit history can drop your price without having to switch insurers. It's why you find lower rates when you shop...the new companies have updated info your existing company doesn't. The existing insurer has to disclose they may check your credit so it's not automatically done at renewal.

Sorry, I'm an insurance agent, can't help it.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Good to see a post from @LittleMissCountry, hope your power has been restored. Sorry about the hungry fox @WthrLady and sorry for your loss. Good news in the garden, 5 of the original 6 broccoli plants are growing new leaves. So the groundhog damage was not all that bad, just a little set back. The peas have started blooming. I don't expect a good yield on these as they are a bush type, so fewer peas per row. Next year I'll go back to my standard. My pole beans aren't as advanced as yours @Acre4Me. They are still recovering from the GH damage but should be starting their climb in a few more days. But your beans look great. I've had a breakthrough with the littles integration. Finally, after nearly 8 weeks the "littles" slept on the roost with the big girls. This has been a slow integration and having to deal with one vicious hen that tried to kill the babies, I finally just let them mingle after dark. They started out near their protected area last night and this morning when I opened the pop door all three of the littles were hanging on the big roost next to the window. Although I get them together in the grass outside the run they still keep away from the hens. They don't move around in the run unless the big girls are still outside. Have a great day everyone.

 

[WthrLady]

Possibly not the type but the age is what made your rate drop. If it's a shingle roof it won't last 50 years in your state...it's not necessarily the SIZE of hail, but the intensity of the impact when it hits that does the damage.

Have you asked your insurance agent if your policy can be requoted with your current carrier? Sometimes running a new quote based on updated claims and credit history can drop your price without having to switch insurers. It's why you find lower rates when you shop...the new companies have updated info your existing company doesn't. The existing insurer has to disclose they may check your credit so it's not automatically done at renewal.

Sorry, I'm an insurance agent, can't help it.

Nope, sorry. Our old roof was 5 years old. (and it was a replacement for a 2 year old roof that was beaten by 2" hail, single layer asphalt both times, our state doesn't allow stacking of layers- we didn't live here either time.)

Although I appreciate your input. I got the quote for what our rate would be if I went with standard shingles like what was on there, it would be exactly the same as always, if I went with steel (went up 17%) and then what it would be if I upgraded to the high impact roofing. Rates dropped for my separate hail policy by 30% a YEAR! All keeping the same $$$ per building deductible, which is standard in a high risk hail state.

We've had no claims in 23 years on our home policies.

It's not that it will last for 50 years, like companies say it's a 30 year shingle or a 40 year shingle. It is covered by the manufacturer for 50 years.

It's also not the intensity. It's the size, the driven speed, angle of impact, and duration.

Meteorologist, can't help it.

Our hail lasted one hour and 11 minutes at mixed size, mostly of nickel and dime size. It spent 14 minutes at quarter (1") size, and a full two minutes at 1.78". It was a narrow band of hail at the larger size of only about 20 feet wide that went over the neighboring pasture, the center of my orchard, one of the barns, and the center of the house, before crossing the road to the neighbors pond and house.

Luckily we had almost no wind so they came straight down and were repelled by the windows and siding. Our young roof didn't blink at the 1 inch hail, but cracked and bruised with the 1.78" hail at terminal velocity, as did my umbrella and foot. Although watching DH run across the lawn with a 5 gallon bucket on his head was worth the price of admission.

That said, the roofers did more damage to my gutters that the hail did! Good grief.

@penny1960 it's an amorshield SBS ClassIV shingle You can also go super fancy and get them that look like slate and tile, but that wouldn't suit this style of house.

Anyway......
Garden, spotted a squash bug the other day in the main garden. Bwhahahaaaa won't he be disappointed. I didn't plant cukes or squash in there this year.

Beans are planted as is some nice mustard for harvesting actual mustard seed.

Another .52 inches of rain last night. Install irrigation systems all over and what does it do? Rain all the time. Many of our farmers still can't get into the fields.

Fox came shopping 3 times again last night. She was hungry enough to TRY to get the bait, but didn't get stuck in it.

I will keep trying. I heard hysterically crying pre-teen boys last evening at dusk from down the road. I wonder if she visited their duck pen. I'll call later when I know they're all up.

Anyway.....everyone have a pest free, weed free day !

 

[WthrLady]

They started out near their protected area last night and this morning when I opened the pop door all three of the littles were hanging on the big roost next to the window. Although I get them together in the grass outside the run they still keep away from the hens. They don't move around in the run unless the big girls are still outside. Have a great day everyone.

I love that age!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Nope, sorry. Our old roof was 5 years old. (and it was a replacement for a 2 year old roof that was beaten by 2" hail, single layer asphalt both times, our state doesn't allow stacking of layers- we didn't live here either time.)

Although I appreciate your input. I got the quote for what our rate would be if I went with standard shingles like what was on there, it would be exactly the same as always, if I went with steel (went up 17%) and then what it would be if I upgraded to the high impact roofing. Rates dropped for my separate hail policy by 30% a YEAR! All keeping the same $$$ per building deductible, which is standard in a high risk hail state.

We've had no claims in 23 years on our home policies.

It's not that it will last for 50 years, like companies say it's a 30 year shingle or a 40 year shingle. It is covered by the manufacturer for 50 years.

It's also not the intensity. It's the size, the driven speed, angle of impact, and duration.

Meteorologist, can't help it.

Our hail lasted one hour and 11 minutes at mixed size, mostly of nickel and dime size. It spent 14 minutes at quarter (1") size, and a full two minutes at 1.78". It was a narrow band of hail at the larger size of only about 20 feet wide that went over the neighboring pasture, the center of my orchard, one of the barns, and the center of the house, before crossing the road to the neighbors pond and house.

Luckily we had almost no wind so they came straight down and were repelled by the windows and siding. Our young roof didn't blink at the 1 inch hail, but cracked and bruised with the 1.78" hail at terminal velocity, as did my umbrella and foot. Although watching DH run across the lawn with a 5 gallon bucket on his head was worth the price of admission.

That said, the roofers did more damage to my gutters that the hail did! Good grief.

@penny1960 it's an amorshield SBS ClassIV shingle You can also go super fancy and get them that look like slate and tile, but that wouldn't suit this style of house.

Anyway......
Garden, spotted a squash bug the other day in the main garden. Bwhahahaaaa won't he be disappointed. I didn't plant cukes or squash in there this year.

Beans are planted as is some nice mustard for harvesting actual mustard seed.

Another .52 inches of rain last night. Install irrigation systems all over and what does it do? Rain all the time. Many of our farmers still can't get into the fields.

Fox came shopping 3 times again last night. She was hungry enough to TRY to get the bait, but didn't get stuck in it.

I will keep trying. I heard hysterically crying pre-teen boys last evening at dusk from down the road. I wonder if she visited their duck pen. I'll call later when I know they're all up.

Anyway.....everyone have a pest free, weed free day !

Regarding the roofing mess. When I had the roof done on my previous house it was a mess as well. The roof had multiple layers of shingles but no wood. The roofers did clean up the mess. One thing I noticed is that they go all over the yard with a magnet to catch nails that may have fallen into the grass. I did find small bits of shingles and antique wood chips but very few nails afterward. Might not be a bad idea to go over it with a magnet yourself so you find any leftover nails before your chickens do.

 

[Acre4Me]

Meteorologist, can't help it.

I'm an insurance agent, can't help it.

Funny how our fields of expertise color our lives! I'm a scientist, can't help it! so the phrase "I read it on the web" sometimes gives me involuntary twitches.

 

[WthrLady]

THey went over it with a large magnet sweep several times, but then they blew the roof and more landed that they didn't catch. A storm last night blew MORE off the roof that they didn't catch. I've already collected over 200 that have washed just from the downspouts last night and the night before.

We are metal dectecting tonight and picking up bits with our own magnetic sweeps. Roofer knows I will send bills for car tires, tractor tires, implement tires, mower tires that get damaged from nails.

DH just picked up 3 more from behind my truck that were not there when we went to bed last night.

It would be different if it were one or two but it's a crazy number. I have also found 4 20 inch long rolls of nails from their nail guns they tossed in the yard and forgot about. OMG if I had hit that with the shredder mower!

Also, I caught one guy on both days using the back of my hayshed as a toilet! Even though there was a fully modern private bathroom available to them in the barn they were roofing! He walked 100 yard to take a wee on my building! WTH! WHO DOES THAT?!?!?! I also had to clean up their lunch mess....chicken bones, banana peels, peach pits, orange peels, they spilled sticky soda on my porch (rain took care of that), scratched the heck out of my vinyl deck railing. Yes, roof co. manager will be getting feedback. I spent an hour every two hours, going around collecting the plastic shingle wrappers and blowing pieces. They didn't seem to understand that the animals here will eat that crap and die, or it will blow into my hayfield rendering bales worthless.

I've determined that having contractors working around is like making sausage. You don't want to watch the process, just enjoy the end product. UGH.

 

[WthrLady]

Funny how our fields of expertise color our lives! I'm a scientist, can't help it! so the phrase "I read it on the web" sometimes gives me involuntary twitches.

When the roofing manager called me last week to schedule the install, I told him the good days would be Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday before 3pm, Tuesday will be wet. He said, "you people are always wrong. We'll deliver the shingles Monday, do tear off Tuesday and roof Tuesday."

So the crew shows up at 630am MONDAY and starts ripping my roof off, no shingles ever did arrive. Glorious roofing day, sunny, just a light breeze, and 75 degrees. Gorgeous.
Manager calls at 130pm to say, "well guess you noticed they started a day early." DUH...I wasn't prepared for a crew of 15 people and their mess, just a delivery of shingles, so that day of work shot.

Tuesday, it rains before dawn. Crew shows up at 7am, they have nothing to do, but make a mess and hang out chatting until 9am when the shingles show up. OK.....spend all day working. Manager shows up on site at 1pm. Says, "told ya it wouldn't rain" well it didn't rain that morning 30 miles south of me....but it rained here. I then said, but it's about to rain. He said 'nah'.

Three minutes later, the crew is sitting in their truck while a downpour goes over. Manager is standing under the eaves of the barn looking at the sky. When he left, he did apologize for the 'always wrong' comment.

Two more pop ups in the afternoon that crews just kept working through..ticked off. OH and get this. They finished at 530pm, but sat around chatting on their coolers in my driveway, or in their cars - radios going , until 730. Guess they were running out their 12 hour clock.