Cold, Wet, and a Bailing-Wire Belt

It snowed last night in Tahoe. It’s June 7, and there was snow on the ground this morning.

Normally, I would be excited to see fresh snow, but in June, the ski resorts are closed, so snow does nothing for me. It was cold & wet, and it didn’t melt all the way off until about 1 pm.

We were working on putting up some soffit underneath a carport overhang. This particular house has a unique roof drainage system built in where there are holes in the edges of the roof with copper drainage pipes sticking through the soffit.

Our boss needed to get the scaffolding to another site tomorrow, so we needed to get this section of soffiting finished, regardless of the fact that ice-cold-snow-melt-water was dripping through the pipes on us the whole time.

While we suffered through our version of the Chinese Water Torture, we desperately hoped that the water would stop dripping. In fact, the water did stop dripping. Unfortunately for us, it was about 15 minutes after we finished the job and tore down the scaffolding. Isn’t that life?

As for the bailing-wire belt, well I forgot to put on my belt this morning. As previously discussed, I have no natural ability to retain my pants in the rear. Add to that the fact that my waist has actually shrunk a little, and I was destined to spend a lot of the day hiking up my britches.

I decided to suck it up a little and make a belt out of the only ready material; bailing-wire. It wasn’t the most comfortable device, but the custom fit actually seemed to work better than the real thing. I told my girlfriend that I was thinking about wearing a bailing-wire belt from now on, but she didn’t seem too amused by the idea.

Weight

I finished today at 176 pounds.