The last verse of this blow-by-blow account. When the roof comes off, including tar paper down to the wood, it fragments into little pieces everywhere. At the end strong magnets get a lot of the nails but not bits of shingle and paper. Despite tarps over them several plants were squashed and the iris bed was trampled, but I've been meaning to thin them this fall so now will be a good time. There was a small Philips antenna on the side of the house at the roofline that was probably 12-15 years old and the support for it broke. It currently dangles by it's coaxial cable on the side of the house, still happily picking up TV signals but looks odd. I'm shopping for a new one the roofer will install for me soon. The new roof looks excellent. And great news - the bat house that I put on the garage that only attracted wasps is now going for a ride in the trailer with roofing scraps. No point in giving it away, it's pretty rough now.
The dogs were good, not happy to be shut in all day, and once Cookie shot out into the back and Pepper followed. I could see the wheels turning when I ordered them back into the house, but they went back in on voice command only and were given treats. This happened when I was exiting the house to work on the garden - I dismantled much of the now-dead tomato hedge, pulled up a couple of the huge okra roots, and dug sweet potatoes out of the Smart Pot.
Meanwhile indoors I deployed a trick learned yesterday when scrolling through social media; I have four panels of thermal drapes on a long rod over the sliding glass door, and she showed how to fold the ends of the curtains so they overlap and when put on the rod they look like one drape and move together. Why didn't I think of that?
Tomorrow we'll wrap up the math part and the final payment, and I turn in the documentation of the work. I have a bit more to spend on a couple of minor repairs to other things and this will be over.