Saturday At 4:00a it started raining, hard. Like pounding hard. We had not put on the flashing around the new stove pipe, so at 0 dark 30 we all went up on the roof and worked on that. It took about an hour to get it on and the tarp cinched up tight. We did some more work on the tarps and then went back inside for breakfast. It continued the steady rain. We were able to call John before he left to cancel his workday. We had been up until 11:30 working on the fireplace and then working outside at 4:30a. We were able to get some ‘inside’ work done. We went to get a new camillia bush, but they had all be killed in the frost. My dad worked on the posts and I worked on trying to adjust the tarps. At about 5p we called it a day and Pop and Mark went home. I fell asleep at 8:30p with the rain still coming down.
