"Sinning Flesh" Preserve

 ....is named after a debatably named brook, sometimes called "Sin And Flesh" Brook.

Its in a suburban location, behind Fort Barton, the ruins of a Revolutionary War "redoubt". The steep climb up was rewarded by a great view of the bay:

The name has sad origins. During King  Phillip's War, an unfortunate traveler was killed in these woods, and found floating in an unnamed brook, which became known as "Sinning Flesh" Brook. That name seems more plausible than what's on the sign, which almost sounds "racy". We were slightly creeped out by the sad history, and burned a sage smudge stick on the way.

Despite the sad history, the preserve is small but interesting. Many small bridges, boardwalks, and stairs.

This is the most Chicken-Of-The-Woods I've ever seen on one tree:

 

Speaking of trees, there were a lot of those type of trees that grow a new vertical trunk after a horizontal branch was cut off. This one was almost shaped like a perfect letter "U":

Uninformative sign.

At the outer part of the preserve, we frequently heard gunfire. A couple passing by said that there was a shooting range nearby.

The brook itself was nice.

Roofing The Porch

This is a pretty mundane topic for a blog post, but I haven't posted for a while, and I need the practice 😉

One of the gutters on my porch roof had an issue, when I went to fix it, I drove a nail into compost, not wood, so I decided to roof the entire porch.

The bottom layer was badly deteriorated 3-tab shingles. 

Rot. They had extended the shingles themselves to reach the gutter, which was attached with stupid metal hangers that nailed into the old layer of shingles.

After ripping it all off, I found that they had skimmed over the old, shrunken, tongue-and-groove boards with 1/4" plywood. I cut the last 3' of plywood off, replacing it with (ridiculously expensive) 3/4". This resulted in a 1/4" step, which when covered with shingles, isn't even noticeable.

This is the flashing between the roof and house. They went under the second course of clapboard and over the old shingles. This was a pain to remove. I had to replace the last run of clapboard (all wood is wildly expensive now) , and I used a simple flashing under it and over the new shingles. I don't see the logic in putting flashing under shingles.

Tarpaper, 12" of aluminum flashing at the edge, drip edge, etc. I glued the first course of shingles to the drip edge with tar. On the left is a strip on plywood cut to the amount of exposure, which I use to align the shingles.

When I had gotten this far, it started to sprinkle rain! Scrambled to cover it with a tarp, By the time I got the tarp in place, it cleared up.

The rest went routinely.