And now for the metal cap!

Saturday, October 29, and Wayne and Janet report for roof-building volunteering at 8 in the morning. A certain amount of confusion as we try to organize the work and who does what without really knowing what the Master Builder's Master Plan is. There has been a frost overnight, so we start on the sunny side of the roof. The MB soon has Wayne marching up and down the slope as if he were in a shopping mall. Our team quickly builds the 2 by 2 framework to receive the 2 inch foam insulation panels and then we proceed quickly to the first 15 foot by 3 foot metal panel. We don't know exactly how they recommend attaching these panels, so the first one looks like it's been attached to the front of a military tank: we shall call this first panel the "hurricane corner". That panel will never come off, ever. I do a calculation and realize that we'll need twice the screws they've sent us if we carry on with this screwing pattern. It will also take at least an hour to screw each panel. Our family doctor, work site co-organizer and Swiss MB comforter (one of the three sisters who are wives of the three men involved in this exercise) has the answer: using her magic I-phone she contacts the company and manages to get help from someone doing a Saturday morning shift! We have it! Now we know how to screw it down. The magic of Apple. Thank you, Mr Jobs. In the remaining six hour session we get 2/3 of the way along one side of the roof at which point there is a shower of light rain and magically a double rainbow breaks out across the lake. It is time to call it a day before Wayne's feet fall off and Michael permanently develops a Charlie Chaplin penguin walking style. I am sure that those size 14 shoes help keep him balanced on the roof but nevertheless it is amazing how flexible and balanced he is for such a big man: tribute to his dad, Oldy who was an accomplished Alpine climber. Oldy would be proud of the MB's building. The evening party and feast helps to get us over the trials of the working day, but rain breaks out overnight and Sunday, with Janet and Wayne both ready to help us finish the roof, is lost to high winds and rain. At least it's only 1/2 of the house now getting wet... But how shall we finish the roof with only the two of us, and only one MB?