Waiting for the bad news

The insulation guy is here and up in the attic. He came down once and I said 'any surprises?' and he said 'yes' which, I suspect, is going to cost a bit more. We had 30 R rating when we built the house. It has settled, which did not surprise me.
Turns out he was only saying that they had not really measured correctly for 30 R in some places and it had settled all over. NBD. I figure and hope that it will only be $2k or less. He did say that the garage didn't need it, in fact shouldn't have more than the minimum, so we save some there. Not so many sqft.

Meanwhile my new watch charger came in:



Not as likely to turn it into a stove top. Turns out my burn is a 2nd class. Huge blister that will, of course, take months to completely heal. I've got one of the high end, fast heal bandaids on it now and, of course, my watch band fits over it nicely.

Rest day

Today was supposed to be a day of rest for me and it turned out well. I did a little chasing around this morning in pursuit of a Dog Ranch project. This gate no longer works:



I fixed it once with a new hinge and a reinstalled latch and it worked for six months. But the guy that cuts the grass hit the left post and knocked it off a couple of inches so the latch (which only has about a half an inch leeway before it does not work) no longer latches. If you look you can see that the two posts are not exactly parallel. Kind of makes it hard for the gate to work.

SO I thought if I could put a top arch on the gate to hold them parallel it would fix the problem. But the right hand post is about 5'4" so I can't just put a bar across the top. It has to have some elevation in the middle so people over 6 feet don't bonk their heads. Seems easy. Right.

I've now bought two one inch flat pieces of iron four feet long and a 90 degree angle iron. I'm welding them together with epoxy welding paste. Once I've got that I'll bend the ends and drill holes and screw them into the top of the posts after I've made them once again parallel. Piece of cake.

Oh, yeah, whoever built the damn thing left the posts at different heights as you can see so I've also got to cut off the left one so they are the same height. Without electricity. Hand saw. In 100+ degree heat.

Pictures to follow.