The plumber, the roofer, roofer, roofer, and the last roofer

Yes, that's how many home repair/maintenance people I had out to the house today. Pretty much took me from 9:30am to 5pm.

In between, I made a small photo album for my senior out at The Dalles, whom I'll go visit tomorrow. I went out to the family home yesterday and took some photos of his antique car and of the garden, printed up the best dozen and made a small spiral bound album for him. The photos will make a good jump off point for conversation when I go visit. HIs wife also gave me a whole bunch of things that I can take with me either tomorrow or next week, or for when I go out for the week in July.

The spiral binding machine has been a good investment. I was originally thinking that I would do a sewn album, but by the time 3pm came around and I was on my 3rd roofer with 1 more to come, I figured my best chance of getting something put together was to spiral bound it. I used a rejected inkjet print of one of my paintings for cover and some left over Canson for pages, added a sheet of mylar over the front cover, and it looks pretty cute.