The Shingles Arrive

Today marked an important day in building our log home - the shingles arrive by boom truck.

The gang at Rona delivered our shingles bright and early Saturday morning. This event was not without it’s own complications - just like the rest of the home building - as we had a phone miscommunication and time mixup.

Rona’s boom truck operator was on-site and ready to unload by 8:00 am. We were just leaving home at that time, 40 minutes away. We thought for certain that he would eventually tire of waiting on us, drop the shingles on the ground and leave. We rushed anyway.

As luck would have it, Bancroft’s finest (the local OPP) were sitting on the highway running speed traps and we were caught flying along the highway as we sped into the log home building site. Thankfully we had a kind police officer who fined us less than we deserved with only a little whining and crying on our part.

Arriving nearly an hour late we discovered that Rona’s driver had indeed waited for us, with a smile, and made friends with the dogs we keep on the property. He had no issues with us being so late and after I’d apologized four times he quite pleasantly said “Be happy!”

With skill and grace he unloaded 90 bundles of architectural shingles onto the shed dormer side of our roof, ice and water shield and ridge vents.

I had videotaped this but somehow lost the footage off my digital camera so you’ll have to take my word for it - the man was a sweetheart that is very skilled at what he does for a living.