By Jim Hagarty
2016
We were in need of a new roofing on the three buildings on our property in my hometown. But a deteriorating roof sneaks up on you, like when you can’t get your socks on anymore because they keep catching on your toenails which have grown too long. Not a good comparison, I now fully realize too late, but it is true that fingernails and toenails do sort of creep up on you, don’t they?
Sometimes it takes a little jolt to wake a person up.
This summer I was driving down a gravel road in the country when I could see a roof above a grove of trees. It was a great looking roof and I immediately thought that this was what we needed at home. But it was only when I rounded a bend in the road that my shock revealed itself. The wonderful roof was sitting atop a broken down, abandoned old farmhouse that hadn’t been lived in in a while. No windows left. Doors flung open. Sky-high weeds grown up all around the place.
It was then I realized that our roof was not even in the same league as the roof on a ramshackle shack in the middle of nowhere.
Toenails meet sock.
The roofers left last week.
