I woke up in the middle of the night last night, around 4 am, thinking of that stupid roof. Wish we had never had a ridge vent cut in it. The house is over 50 years old and we should have waited for the best old time roofer in town to put an old fashioned roof on it. Wish we owed a mortgage on it but we don't so we can't even walk away from it! Had to get up at 6:30 am so I'm very tired.
Beautiful gray cat came meowing to our back door this evening. No collar and hungry. Gave her some of spouse's freshly cooked chicken thighs. She inhaled them. Called Animal Control to pick her up, after first checking with some neighbors. Now, Kitty won't become coyote bait tonight. OK - I thought I had troubles! Poor kitty is homeless tonight!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Peralta Road Cattle Guard to Paliza Pass
Went with Tuesday group renegades who didn't want to walk, shop and eat out in Santa Fe today so we decided to go to Paliza Pass.
The woman who said she would drive us in her big SUV came to the meeting place but said her husband hadn't left enough gas in the tank. I didn't even know she had that enormous vehicle since she never drives it to the group hikes! Instead, she talked the other hiker (only 3 of us) into driving her tiny passenger car on Peralta Road. I said I was a wuss but probably could have driven although not as skillfully and smoothly as the woman who graciously drove us up there.
We parked just below the locked gate and walked up to the rough, steep motor bike trail that goes down just past the cattle guard and grazing fence. Two rough paths come up and now I know that both go to the same place, the intersection of the Peralta-Paliza Trail that goes around the west side of Las Conchas Peak, the blue diamond cross country ski trail that comes up from NM4 and the logging road that goes downhill to NM4 from Paliza Canyon.
I enjoyed seeing Paliza Pass. The hiker who drove us to the start of the hike is laid back but Ms SUV can be aggressively bristly at times. Even so, I see lots to admire in her and I like her.
Husband called roofer who came out this afternoon. Roofer's telling us that the cracked decking near the ridge vent is the end seam of the wood panel used to sheathe the roof and not a crack at all but a separation along the seam. If true (I have my doubts) that means that whoever made the peaked roof over the flat carport roof used a piece of wood that stopped short 8-10 inches from the ridge and then used another strip of wood to finish the ridge which is ridiculous.
My theory is the ridge vent cut somehow caused the deck panel to crack but at this point, I really don't care. The house can fall down on top of our heads for all I care!
It's 82 degrees in the house and I'm uncomfortably hot.
The woman who said she would drive us in her big SUV came to the meeting place but said her husband hadn't left enough gas in the tank. I didn't even know she had that enormous vehicle since she never drives it to the group hikes! Instead, she talked the other hiker (only 3 of us) into driving her tiny passenger car on Peralta Road. I said I was a wuss but probably could have driven although not as skillfully and smoothly as the woman who graciously drove us up there.
We parked just below the locked gate and walked up to the rough, steep motor bike trail that goes down just past the cattle guard and grazing fence. Two rough paths come up and now I know that both go to the same place, the intersection of the Peralta-Paliza Trail that goes around the west side of Las Conchas Peak, the blue diamond cross country ski trail that comes up from NM4 and the logging road that goes downhill to NM4 from Paliza Canyon.
I enjoyed seeing Paliza Pass. The hiker who drove us to the start of the hike is laid back but Ms SUV can be aggressively bristly at times. Even so, I see lots to admire in her and I like her.
Husband called roofer who came out this afternoon. Roofer's telling us that the cracked decking near the ridge vent is the end seam of the wood panel used to sheathe the roof and not a crack at all but a separation along the seam. If true (I have my doubts) that means that whoever made the peaked roof over the flat carport roof used a piece of wood that stopped short 8-10 inches from the ridge and then used another strip of wood to finish the ridge which is ridiculous.
My theory is the ridge vent cut somehow caused the deck panel to crack but at this point, I really don't care. The house can fall down on top of our heads for all I care!
It's 82 degrees in the house and I'm uncomfortably hot.
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