Eyes on the sky; getting up to get down and dirty

One of the last nagging jobs to be done was the final skylight over the staircase - it's been in a box in our old bathroom/laundry room/ black hole of tool storage since damn near 2007. I don't relish putting holes in anything - least of all a newly functional roof, but like the aformentioned tasty relish a skylight promises to add a dollop of daylight onto our hotdog bun of urban living.

roof work is like surgery- clumsy, dirty, horrible surgery

necessity may be the mother of invention but i'll add that it's also the taunting older sister of impatience- not bad for a girl who wouldn't even climb a ladder 6 months ago.