This is the beginning of our second journey into major house repair.  We decided to hire the roofing company Veritas, owned by Michael Portanova.  We hired them a couple of times before, when this roofing fiasco first began.  They were able to do some patch-up jobs for us, but the problem was much bigger than any of us knew.  

When we returned from our trip to Maine this week, we came home to several men on the roof, ripping it apart, sending the debris down to the yard below.  A dumpster had been delivered, much to our tenants' dismay (at 6:30 AM), and all sorts of cloths had been tacked to the bottom edging of the roof to keep everything going down where it needed to go.  This picture is from around 3pm, Wednesday.

We were quite grateful that there was a second entrance into our house since this is what we tried to go through:

I was a little freaked out to find all the mess - pretty sure the roofers would leave it for me to pick up.  There's just no way they could get every last piece.  But John assured  me that they do this every day - they know how to get it all up efficiently.

Rounding the back of the house was quite something.  Again, I felt a little panicky because I saw all the mess and worried that they would leave it (They don't).  This is at about 4pm on Wednesday afternoon.

It's quite a feeling - knowing that we will not have our indoor irrigation any longer.  Everything will be sealed up, tight as a drum (in fact, some of the roofing areas will actually have rubber installed, just like a drum!).  All the gutters and fascias will be replaced, and eventually we will invest in rain barrels to collect water for the plants.  What a relief.  What a true gift we have received to get this done.  

I will post more pictures this evening to capture what has happened today.