Project progress
Got the first overhang put up. I think it will look pretty good once I get the drip edge, shingles, etc. attached; these things hide a multitude of sins. For all that it looks a bit... haphazard... in its unfinished state, it also looks "right" for the house.
With housemate's input, decided that the second overhang will be the same height/angle, with trim at the top to make up the difference. This will make it match the kitchen window overhang, as well as the newly-assembled one. It may make the inside corner where the two overhangs meet slightly easier to sort out, although that's going to be an interesting process regardless.
And then, being tired of overhang work and on the verge of back failure but not quite ready to quit for the day, I tackled one of the secondary projects that's been niggling at me: I reset the driveway border timbers that various people keep backing over. And secured them with eight-inch galvanized spikes. And added skinny reflector poles at the corners, so that people will hit those first and, hopefully, stop before they get to the borders.
I do not know why people have so much trouble with our driveway. If it was just certain road-menaces of my acquaintance, I could write it off, but even people who I generally consider good drivers seem incapable of just backing up straight. The driveway is not, contrary to one menace's attempted justification, particularly narrow; at its narrowest point it's twelve feet, which is as wide as a standard residential driveway and three feet wider than a typical retail parking lot space. And even if it were narrow, I fail to see how that makes swerving wildly from side to side a good approach. Surely in a supposedly-narrow space, one should attempt to drive straighter? Not to mention, there's a huge tree less than a foot from the border that people keep backing over; if nothing else, you'd think they'd make an effort to steer clear of that.
If the current arrangement doesn't keep people off my border timbers, I may attach bells to the warning reflector poles. And if that doesn't work, I'm going to be seriously tempted to electrify the damn things. It's not the work of re-re-resetting the borders that really steams me, although I certainly don't need the extra task; it's the sheer infuriating frustration of not understanding why it's an issue in the first place.