Stealth Roofers

I've been visited by elves this week. 

The elf story starts with the construction projects we've hired out for our home.  We'd asked our contractors to paint the ceiling in our guest bedroom -- a ceiling that had been water-damaged as a result of a leaky roof we'd fixed a few years ago.   Except that right before they started painting, we had a rain storm that demonstrated that the roof was no longer fixed.

The contractors, instead, with my blessing, took down the ceiling and helped us find some roofers (not an easy task with all the rain everyone here on the East Coast has been getting this fall).


With the ceiling reminding me of every girl scout summer cabin I'd ever stayed in, the contractors sent me an email saying,

A quick follow up. We are waiting for [the roofer] to let us know when you are in the schedule. Although don’t be surprised if he just stops in and completes it. I’ve heard he has a tendency to do that. 

So I gamely waited for a while,  until one day early this week I came home and saw this in my yard:  

Piles of compost dirt strewn around.

It looked like someone had strewn gopher-sized piles of compost or mulch around the yard.  Or maybe like someone had cleaned out our gutters (except that our gutter guards have pretty much eliminated the compost that used to accumulate there).   So I figured the stealth roofers had come by.  Sure enough, my contractors wrote to me later that evening:

I heard that Your roof is finished. Not sure if you knew . He just texted us saying it’s completed. I’ll get you on the scheduled for finishing the drywall

And here's a view of that pesky roof, from the attic window.  Just in time for the rain that blew in this evening.

So thanks to my stealth roofer elves!