Science Fair 101

Thanks to (almost) Uncle Jeff for volunteering to help Madden with her Science Fair project to determine which roof type and house color will keep your house coolest in the oppressive Texas heat. He purchased supplies and spent many hours readying the bird houses for their tests. The brownie points he earned with his future sister-in-law for these acts of kindness are NUMEROUS.

In case curiosity has the best of you, the winning combination of roofs/colors was the metal roof with the black paint. Which led Madden to the conclusion that paint color doesn't matter much, but metal roofs reflect lots of sunlight.