Steve Tilford

The title says it all. I don’t have time to mess around today on the computer. I think I’m on schedule, but you know how that goes. It is supposed to rain here around sunset, so that is the deadline now I guess.

I was up on the roof close to midnight last night. I only have rubber to adhere, but there is a bunch of stuff to do before and after than.

I haven’t ridden for 3 days, this is going to be the fourth. That is the most time off the bike I’ve had this season. Not that I haven’t been doing physical stuff. Maybe it is a good late season break? It doesn’t really matter, it is what it is.

Okay, tomorrow is Halloween. There is a beer mile in Topeka if you have any interest. Plus the World Series games the next couple days.

Start.

There was pretty much no sheathing. There was one rubber roof on top of another, with fiberboard below the original.

Cleaned up.

Yes, this is fiberboard too, but going to Des Moines to get the right insulation would have taken too long. The whole roof need to be redone, so this is what it is.

Michael has some strange stuff around his house.

Jeff Bradley’s Midget National’s jersey. Funny how they called young people midgets back in the 70’s.

This is a display MIchael had at his shop back in the day. Jimmy Mac sent me the photo yesterday.

Yesterday was good. And I got lucky. At least at the end.. I have been fixing a rubber roof at my friend MIchael Fatka’s house in Iowa and had run into some unexpected issues that required time, which I am short of.

But yesterday went pretty well, right until the forecast said ran at 7 pm. I was rushing around all day and finally got the deck covered by sunset. It went pretty well and isn’t going to leak any there. I even had time to do a weird corner that had pulled away from the wall.

Anyway, by this time it was after 7 and I thought they had screwed up the forecast again. But just a tad later, it started raining and it kept raining. I had just put on the last bit of edge caulking 15 minutes earlier and had started gathering tools to take down.

Man, is that a lucky roofing job. Rain nearly the minute you get done.

The van is all packed and we’re heading south to Kansas in a few minutes. The beer mile is in Topeka this afternoon. I can’t run, but am going to watch for sure.

Then tomorrow I’m flying to LA again. I need to pack my bike and try to get a cross bike working well enough to race next weekend in Louisville. I’m flying back to Louisville oo Thursday. That should be interesting.

Okay, leaving Iowa. It rained all night and so far it is dry. Yeah.