When the roofers told me they would be at the house first thing in the morning, I thought they meant seven or eight in the morning.
- I heard a truck pull into our driveway, but I thought it was the trash truck and rolled over to go back to sleep.
Two minutes later, my husband was rousing me out of bed. He told me the roofers were already there. It was only 5:30 AM, and the roofers had arrived. I groaned and told him to pull the curtain down, but he refused. He said if he had to be up to greet the roofers; I was going to be up with him. He didn’t want me coming downstairs in my pajamas and having the roofers looking in the windows and seeing me. I wore pajamas, but I would not argue with him. I headed down the steps five minutes later, completely dressed and with my hair combed. The older gentleman of the group apologized for being so early. It was supposed to be a hot day, and he wanted to get the roof started before it got too hot. He said they were going to remove the old roof, and at the very least, they would get the tar paper down and then replace the roof the next day. I had never seen a team of roofers work like they did. By twelve noon, they had the old roof off and most of the new roofing installed. They took an hour for lunch and went right back to work. When I asked about their doing the job in two days, he said he hated putting off a roofing job, in case it started raining, so he worked hard and complete the roof that day.