Live and Learn
After getting some good advice, we watched several YouTubes. Live and learn. We are too late putting electrical heat tape on part of our roof.
Ideally we will do that work in the late fall of 2020. At this point in time our down spouts have ice in them as well as the eve troughs. Next fall we will take off the trough covers so the electrical heat tape can be properly secured. In the mean time, in between time we will use the snow rake after the snow falls. Actually, Dennis will be using the snow rake or grandson Ryan will be getting a call.
This afternoon, I got a call from nephew Brett. Armed with multiple sizes of sewing machine needles I headed out. Brett has just had the sewing machine on his long-arm quilter serviced. The machine sitting on a table stitches perfectly. Hooking the machine to the long arm for it to glide along while sewing . . . not so good. The thread would break about every two feet, or less. Brett thought maybe the size of the needle going through as much as four layers at some points was making the difference. Not so! His thread is new, the machine was threaded from step one through the needle threading, he re-threaded the bobbin and . . . not good.
I had two suggestions after several hours. We have a gal here in town that does long-arm quilting. Perhaps he could give Sue a call and ask her what she has run across with threads breaking. My second suggestion was to call the place where his machine was serviced to see what they have run across with threads breaking. Actually my third suggestion was to go on YouTube and scroll through posts. I hope he finds some solution as it was very daunting to see him wanting to get his project done with nothing positive to show for it other than many loose threads where he had re-threaded the needle. I could offer nothing else.
Today was a thawing day. As of this evening Dennis does have the snow off of the portion of the roof that doesn’t have a sharp incline. The snow just wants to lay up there and freeze down, then thaw and then do the re-freeze. Not to worry, we’ve got this. I give huge amounts of moral support. It does piss me off that I am no longer to be doing something like the snow rake . . . or the snow pushing. “Just put your hands in your pocket and encourage me.” Thus says Dennis.