Current Big Project

We're working on repairing, replacing, and adding to our roof. Well, actually, we've hired a friend to do it for us. I've been Home Teaching Kenn Andersen for some time now. He's a very talented contractor and we're so excited to see what he's been able to do for our roof.
The old roof had two layers of shingles, so we thought it best to strip off all of the old and put down new shingles instead of just adding a third layer. Boy am I glad we decided to do that. We discovered a lot of damage to the wood beneath the shingles in several places. There was even one place that had a hole all the way through the two layers of shingles and the wood beneath them. Fortunately that was only over an eave outside the garage. Still, it was a lot worse than we had expected.
We bought shingles and other supplies from Harrington, just off of 21st South and I-15. The first counselor in our ward's bishopric is related to people that own/operate Harrington, so he helped us get a decent discount. We were a bit worried, though when Harrington called us just a day or two before the shingles were to be delivered. The color of shingles we ordered was not available in the style we had selected. It turned out OK, though. They offered to substitute a slightly higher-quality shingle for the out-of-stock kind. The color was very nearly the same and we wouldn't have known the difference in the style anyway. Who pays attention to roofs in that much detail anyway?
We're really excited about the addition to the roof. We used to have a covered patio area. When we moved in to the house, it had some corrugated fiberglass sheets attached to a simple wood frame to cover the small concrete pad behind our kitchen/dining room. The fiberglass eventually failed and I had replaced it (poorly) with PVC panels. When we asked Kenn to do our roof, we also mentioned that one day we would like to add on to our home. He suggested that we could add on the roof now since we are re-doing the rest of it anyway. Then when (if) time and budget permit, we can dig out a foundation and put up walls to fill it in later for an addition. That sounded great to us! Hopefully that will work out for us. We may have some difficulty with minimum setback requirements in the zoning ordinances in Riverton. We'll see how it works out later though. For now, it's just a somewhat bigger covered patio area, and is still within even a strict interpretation of the setback rules.
We're still not all the way done. Kenn will be finishing the shingles and installing the permanent support posts. I have some electrical work to add to it. And then we need to cover the ceiling and soffits, and paint the exposed wood. We can't wait for it to get done!