Up On the Roof

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Roof estimate day. Today was a day I wasn’t exactly looking forward to. Instead, it turned into a fabulous blessing for me. The roofing company employee was prompt. In fact, he was early. He hopped up on the roof (okay, he used his ladder) and inspected it thoroughly. I heard some pinging and hammering along with his footsteps. Gee, how much did the credit union say I could get as a home equity loan for this job? He came down after a few minutes. “What kind of shingles are those?” he asked. “Owens-Corning?” Yeah, they are the industry standard in shingles as far as I’m concerned. “They’re fine,” he continued. “Your leak was caused by a nail being in the wrong place. I fixed that. “Also, your vents needed a realignment in a couple of places.” “So you’re saying,” I said cautiously, still hearing my house laughing at me for thinking I was going to get to keep some of my social security money, “I don’t need a roof replaced, I just need it repaired?” “You don’t even need repairs,” he said. “The few things that were sticking up, I put back.” Since he was here…. “Well, would you like a hundred dollars? Would you take that old satellite dish down?” Just in time for big junk trash day next Friday. Since his company (HKC Roofing and Construction, I’ll gladly spread their name all over the place) also does siding, I asked him to inspect that. “It’s kinda old,” he said. “It was on the house when I bought it, 33 years ago,” I replied. “I’ve never replaced it.” There was one place where the siding had come loose from the window connection (probably caused by the window replacement). He fixed that. So, instead of an $11,000 job on the house, I paid $100. And we had prayer before he left. I thanked God for an honest company and a good worker. What a blessed day I had!! An appropriate classic tune: