Monday was a busy day... We (Susan and I) met Ruth at the Fleetwood property at about 11:45 AM, and began work to further raise and stabilize the garage roof.

After a short while we discovered that main ridge pole was, indeed, rising, but we were also flexing the existing roofing shingles, to the point where they were becoming unstuck from each other... showing slight signs of buckling... Not bad but...we decided that enough was enough, before we "broke something"... ;)

So we started installing the collar ties to keep the roof rafters in the present position.

the day was filled with a lot of "up and down ladder" stuff...but the job is done... a nice feeling.

It's a good feeling to be able to assist Ruth with this sort of thing, while we're in the area.