October 23, 1999    Roofing With Christians Digest
 

Interview with Kurtiss Walters:

M: So Kurtiss, man of mystery, tell us about your day.

K: (yelling from the bathroom) Oh, where to start? Well I woke up to Mikey's alarm today beeping, and I spend some time trying to think about the day and recalling my dreams, and thinking that I am going to have to look for my stuff in the dark because Meg and her boyfriend are sleeping in the other room. So, I turned on the light, and I got my stuff together, and wondered to myself on this day, "will it be rainy? Just what kind of work will I be doing today? At H4H (habitat for humanity)? And what will I have for breakfast?"

Meanwhile in the other room, where meg and her boyfriend were sleeping, Mikey was stoking the fire in the wood burning stove, and I was glad that i didn't have to do it. Though I gladly would (wood) have, and then it occurred to me that i would be having the Chinese food for breakfast, that i didn't finish last night.

K: Do you remember what kind of weather it was this morning?

M: Hey this is my interview, but it was cloudy and cold. What did you do after breakfast?

K: MiXiM and I hopped in the Beetle, much like Batman and Robin, and sped off into Lowville, rockets ablastin'.

M: and?

K: We were on our way to do some good work for some potentially good people. 4 H4H.

M: And what was your impression of these "People"?

K: MMMmmm.... My first impression was... well my first impression was... It's awfully muddy out and wet and cold. And that there was a lot more of the building constructed than I had imagined. And I am glad it had a roof on it...

M: But Kurtiss did It really have a roof, when we got there?

K: It had a uh.. uh... what's that stuff? Roofing paper?

M: Exactly!

K: But it kept out the rain ad that's what was important.. or should have been important. Had we not have to have been on that roof in the rain. (huh?)

M: Huh?

K: Your making me sound funny. Fix It!

Editors note: In case you can't tell by now we may take a while to get to the point. A good editor would summarize at this point and move the story along. But hey I made no claims.

M: So Kurtiss. What you are saying is, "It didn't seem like the best of beginning for a day, what with waking up early, and the weather being crappy, and all, but This story is about how it was quite nice in the end? Yes?

K: Yeah. Now about the people. First there was Phil. Then there was Matt. Who came next? was it Paul.

M: All a good lot, eh?

K: these are all the new disciples by the way.

M: Oh, sorry did I interrupt?

K: who else did we have on the roof there? Jeff.. and

M: I knew that Phil character from before. He helped install our new dryer this summer, and it turns out he's on the H4H committee, not to say he's communist or anything.

K: and Nate dog. The others were on the dark side of the roof.

M: Use the Force Kurtiss!

INTERMISSION: (think happy music)

Quotes for the day:

Kurtiss says, "that monster mailbox scares me, I'll have to work it out."

One of the guys on the roof, "Up here we are closer to home" As he scans
the sky, for god? or aliens? Who knows?

break order (from the roof): I need two hot chocolates and a coffee, because
two of us don't drink coffee.

response: Ok, I've got two coffees right here and I'll go get a hot chocolate.

No two chocolates and ONE coffee.
 

Mikey's roofing joke (told just before lunch):

So two guys were on a roof. Working on either side from each other. The light and dark sides if you will, but that doesn't really figure in for this story. One guy is kind of the foreman but knows the other guy is experienced two. The foreman is just working away and he hears the other guy shingling. "tap, tap Thunk, tap, tap, Thunk, "Damn" clang, click, tunk (the sounds of a nail bouncing of the roof to the ground) And again tap, tap, Thunk, clang, click, tunk. He ignores this pattern for awhile, and the decides after ten minutes of every other nail going on the ground to ask, " Hey, you Ok over there?" the reply, "Sure fine, but half of these nails are defective. The heads are on the wrong end. So he answers, "well don't waste them. Throw them over here and I'll use theM!"
 

So Get this: (disaster stories)
At dinner tonight, somebody said that some other guys roof, blew off in a micro burst, and severed the top off of his silo, clean.

How about that guy who had three houses. One burned, something else to the other, and the third brand new one, just painted, taken away by a tornado. The obvious comment at dinner was it reminds me of Job.

Or the saddest of all. In a wind storm, a farmer was just getting ready to milk his cows, and had to run to the house to close the windows. On his way back he watched, not the direct wind but the turbulence around the barn collapse the whole hay loft on top of his whole herd. The beams fell in such a way as to snap every cows back. Mixed reports say only one survived to have to be shot, or a few on the end survived and escaped and two calves were dug out alive the next day, by chain sawing through the collapsed loft floor above.

On that note.. Back to the interview.. SO where were we?.. Two votes for not looking back:

K: Those people were all very nice and friendly and chatty, and some were silly and kind

M: Yes Kurtiss I quite agree. It was amazing to be roofing with so many different people. A teacher, a doctor..

K: he was a physician's assistant.

M: Everyone called him doctor

K: he treated colds, he was a Physician's assistant!!! turn your head an cough kind of guy. and he reminded me of Devin hollands.

M: and a doctor, and an Edward Abby look alike, a Presbyterian Minister, and Nate-dog (we didn't ask), the aforementioned dryer service guy, etc. You know I was really apprehensive about getting up on that roof at 8 am with mud caked boots, and the rain, but no one fell off, and it was one of the best times I've had roofing in a few years. I was happy that we were taken so seriously and welcomed. Any last comments Kurtiss before we get the virtual boot?

K: PLease call me Dr. Icculus Lividius.

M: Are you a Physician's assistant?

k: No Sir, I am a Doctor of Philosophy, thank you.

M: Well thank you ...uh... Doctor? and uh... Goodnight?

Lowville News Briefs:
Friday night a block fire destroyed half of downtown, including Town and country Furniture, Sherwin williams Paint store, The dollar store, Infinity Salon, and Urbanik's photo. Nine Families were left homeless, but no one was hurt that we have heard.

Where will Mikey and or Kurtiss or Dr Lividius be in two weeks? No one
knows. Not even them.

OK, I love you lady, Bye byee _M-
peace out y'all -K-