New Roof Cresting!

October 30, 2016•
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I’m sooooooooo excited! I installed some ornamental cresting on the ridge of the main roof!!!!!!!! See, like in the middle? Well, I was kinda drunk when I did it, so not all the bits are quite right, but I can climb back onto the roof when sober and reposition some. Anyway, I am sooooooooo excited!

 

In this

In this close-up, you can really appreciate more of the detail. Pretty cool cresting, right? I love it!

 

 

 

 

21 Comments

  1. W on October 30, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    Looks like pigeons.

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  2. Carla Windsor Brown on October 30, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    Ummm….you were up on the roof, way up there while drinking??? We would like you to live to the end of this project!!!!

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  3. Sharol on October 30, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    LOL

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  4. Vicki F. on October 30, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Good one.

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  5. Rhonda on October 31, 2016 at 12:21 am

    Roof cresting…birds resting…Ross jesting!

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    • Ross on October 31, 2016 at 8:04 am

      You get the Best Comment of the Week Award!

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  6. Cindi M on October 31, 2016 at 4:04 am

    The original roof cresters.

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    • Ross on October 31, 2016 at 8:05 am

      Oh! That is good, too!

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  7. Cory on October 31, 2016 at 6:32 am

    Looks like something of the avian variety.

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    • Ross on October 31, 2016 at 8:06 am

      Another good one!

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  8. Californianinkansas on October 31, 2016 at 8:09 am

    Dang it! You got me! If it wasn’t for the other posters above, I wouldn’t have realized that those were birds.
    🙂

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    • Ross on October 31, 2016 at 8:19 am

      !!!!!!

      I thought the second image would reveal that I was, as Rhonda put it, jesting.

      I was, of course, also jesting about being drunk on the roof! EEK!

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      • Californianinkansas on October 31, 2016 at 10:05 am

        I’m sure that you would never do such a thing!

        I took it too seriously because I work in a hospital (customer service) and I was a mental health tech in the Army. You’d be surprised how common it is for injuries to occur due to alcohol + home improvement or alcohol + hanging out on the roof.

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        • Ross on October 31, 2016 at 10:27 am

          I’ve seen those videos on YouTube: People did WHAT?

          Yikes!

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          • Derek on October 31, 2016 at 12:54 pm

            I once had a roofer fall off my roof. He was about 15 feet up. Fortunately, unfortunately, he was so drunk, he just bounced and got back to work. Yikes.



          • Californianinkansas on October 31, 2016 at 1:38 pm

            Derek,
            As the saying goes, God protects fools and drunkards.



  9. Barbara Sanford on October 31, 2016 at 10:26 am

    You can also appreciate just how much that finial dresses up the tower.

    I would add something clever here, but I cannot top the comments above.

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  10. Lisa Phillips on November 1, 2016 at 8:38 am

    LOL! Very cute! 😀

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  11. djd_fr on January 16, 2017 at 8:48 am

    I believe roof ridge decor was often installed to prevent birds from spending time there.

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    • Ross on January 16, 2017 at 8:56 am

      Ah! I never heard that before. But it makes sense!

      Birds LOVE my non-crested roof ridge!

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  12. Miriam Righter on March 10, 2017 at 9:56 pm

    I once drove by a farmhouse with multiple roof peaks on various gables. It was pouring rain. There was a HUGE vulture on each roof peak. Totally freaked me out.

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