Valley Are The Devils Stomping Grounds

Week two of six is now over. Ive also got one more roof under my belt, this one however, contained those God-forsaken places called valleys. Bottom line, valleys suck, theres no real way around it. They're difficult, and what not.
My crew this week was alot of fun. I had 13 campers, three of them being adult chaperons. most everyone was very well motivated, and worked very hard all week. i had a few people who werent very motivated to work this week, but everything still worked out for the best.
My roof this week was two square bigger than last weeks, which isnt a huge deal. what made the roof more difficult were the two valleys we had to deal with. the two valleys were on both sides of an addition to the back of the house. When a roof has valleys, valley flashing has to be laid down, which isnt two difficult, and you have to tar paper over the valley, along with shingling over the valley, and then chalk lining and cutting shingles along the line. You also have to figure out which side of the roof will shed the most water. None of these by itself are all that difficult, and when you add them all together, and then start shingling away from the valley, it gets very easy to get off on your chalk lines and for the shingles to start slanting down the roof, which never looks good.
Monday we worked on tearing off a little over half of one of the back sides, so the kids could somewhat get a handle on shingling. this went pretty well, i was fairly pleased with the amount of work we got done. tuesday we tore off the rest of the back of the house, and started on one of the two valleys for the week. This went alright as well, i wasnt as pleased with the work we got done, but we did have to replace alot of the roof, which was very time consuming and put at a standstill. Wednesday was our half day, so the only thing we did was work on finishing shingling everything we had tar papered. we got the majority of it done, but werent able to finish because of the half day. Thursday, we had another crew come and help us. hatfield, one of the other crew chiefs, only had a 6 square roof to replace, so as soon as they were done, they came and helped us out. This made finishing the roof much easier. i was able to bounce questions off of hatfield, and we had more kids we were able to put to work on other sides of the roof. Thursday we almost finished three sections of the roof, one of them being a valley, i was very pleased. The only thing that happened on thursday, is as we were finishing up for the day, we noticed that the the shingle lines on either side of the valley werent following the chalk lines we had laid, they were slipping down the side of the house. One side was almost 5 inches, the other almost three. Thursday night i talked to dwight and got some suggestions on how to fix the slant, but when we got htere friday it turned out that out shingles were dipping in the middle rather than slanting, meaning we couldnt re-lay new chalk lines down. Todd came over and got us going in the right direction. While We were working on that, all the kids were working on tearing off the last section of the roof, tar papering it, and then shingling it. We had a little meeting before we got started working, explaining to them that we had alot of work to do and if we didnt want to be working late, we would have to really get after it this morning. FOr some reason the kids really responded to this, we were basically finished with the roof by 1130 that morning. I had figured wed be working till 2 or 3 that day, instead we were able to leave at 12ish, and take the kids to sonic. It was an amazing week working on the roof, and out home owner ms england, was the nicest lady ever, even though it was almost impossible to get her to stop talking so we could get some work done. Saturday, i went to louisville with several of the staffers for the day, which was alot of fun. One girl who was driving, amanda blew a tire while we were there, so i got to change my first tire which was fun. I also found out ill be roofing all summer, im really looking forward to that. Roofing may be alot harder and more time consuming than building a deck, but its definitely alot more fun than decking ever could be. Im looking forward to this next week of campers and seeing what job well be doing. I dont think ill have any valleys this week, which will be nice.

i just realized the title of this wont make much sense to many of yall, so heres the story: wednesday, most of the staff went to a sub shop called little philly for lunch, after we had finished eating, several of us just sat around talking for a while. Hatfield and i were talking about the valleys wed have to be working on, and we came to the conclusion that valleys on roofs are truly a God forsaken place, and therefore are satans stoping grounds. we had a good laugh about that.