What the????? and working on the roof

First of all people are stupid. We all know this. We see them driving down the road all the time. This only "re"emphasizes how stupid people are. I particularly like the guy walking around in the bullet-proof vest.

Speaking of trees I went up in mine again today. But let me back up. First today I made a bunch of phone calls to get the ball rolling on the electrical stuff which precedes the heating and air stuff which is brought around b/c of the heater that is dying in my basement. The boiler has a laceration that is bleeding onto the floor at the moment. (Translation it's leaking water.) Transfusions are also enroute. (We ran out of fuel oil.) Lets just say we had 100 gals delivered when we first moved in. I was concerned 2-3 days ago that we were going to run out soon so I put the dip stick in the tank. The reading was that we had 50 gals left in the tank. OK. So we have burned 50 gals in like 2 months. Not too bad. So Grace goes to take a shower this morning and no hot water. Blah. So I go to try to prime the boiler to see if there is any fuel and no fuel comes out. I am thinking the pickup tube for the tank is probably about 50 gals off the bottom of the tank for sediment reasons etc. So I call up to order more fuel. Then I call the heating guy to get the # of a new electrician that is better (ie cheaper) than the one that came out earlier. His name just happens to be Emeril. (Insert chuckles here) OK so he had the name before that guy. That's such a bad pic. Anyways, I talk to him and he will get back to me. I run some errands and come home. I then get back on the roof of the garage to start to tackle the root ball that has grown into my bricks. I start out with the chainsaw. Everything is going fine. I am getting some of the major stuff out of the way and then I hit a brick. I was being careful about how high the last row of bricks were and such. Little did I know, but the roots/vines must have penetrated the mortar in the last couple of rows of bricks. They then grew and lifted the bricks. So what I have are bricks that are basically floating in this root ball that is on the roof. I figured all of this out by taking a crowbar and prying/ hacking my way into the ball. I figure now the best way to disassemble the whole mess is to get the sawzaw from Steve (Graces dad) and surgically remove all bricks and offending roots/vines from the wall. So it was starting to get dark so I cleaned up by raking the roof (How many people actually have to rake the roof of their garage?) and put everything away.