Q. I have an 11-year-old house in Tewksbury I built myself. It has a hand-split, rough-sawn, cedar-shingle roof. When it was first installed, and every two to three years since, I have had Penofin ...

Regarding the stone house with thatched roof in San Miguel de Allende [“A Labor of Luck,” Feb. 7]: How many hundreds of rats does Michele Connor or, better yet, her housekeeper estimate now are ...