Hurray! It's roof day! It's technically roof-prep day. The roofing company we've hired makes two visits: during the initial visit the roofer puts down underlayment and takes measurements. He (or she, I suppose, but I don't know if there are any women working for this company) takes those measurements back to the company's facility where they custom make your metal roof sheets, and then when they're done with that, they come back and install it. Today was our underlayment and measurement day. Doesn't the house look nice with underlayment on the roof?
My favorite part of the day though was that the man who was measuring our roof is actually from the next town over from North Stonington. When we told him we were going to be moving onto a property on Clarks Falls Road, his first response was "Oh- will you be near the Palmers' farm or the Bills'?" I love that we're moving into a town where people ask your address in relative terms of proximity to family farms. We chatted about the property in North Stonington, and when we said that we didn't know what we were going to do for water since we won't have a well, he told us about a spring on the side of the road about 3 miles away from our property that people have been using for years for their drinking water. While I know that there are a fair number of concerns about using water that just comes out of a pipe on the side of the road, it's still nice to know that there is a super local/accessible source of free water for us when we get to North Stonington.
