#1BB and I bought a "Little Giant" ladder system from Costco. The gutters on the house needed to be cleaned and when you look around, there's always alot of stuff that you think "well, i would do that, if only i had a ladder." well, now, i have no excuses.
Yesterday, even though the wind was brisk, #1BB braved the roof and swept 60 years of gunk from the gutters (i don't know if they've ever been cleared of debris or cleaned out.) Mostly, it was shingle dust and a few leaves, but from the back gutters, he pulled a whole section of our antenna that seems to be falling off in pieces. (when he threw the metal spine down, I imagined it was 1957, and parts of Sputnik fell into my yard.) But then something really interesting came down. This little broken toy (see above.) Who knows when it got up there. Again, since i was the one on the ground and not really having to concentrate on keeping my balance (all that much), I could imagine how it had come to land in the gutter, clogging it for decades and causing the water to sit and drip drip drip on the awnings during last summer's rains. (It was a quiet summer 'round these parts. We've been parched.)
Anyway, my neighbor grew up in the house that we share a wall with and maybe it was his? I'll leave it on their doorstep and see if he wants it back. (I have the Amelie fantasy...remember, when she finds the box of treasures hidden in her bathroom?)
In other news, i'm still not talking, but typing typing typing. Yerfdog says this will give me an excellent reason to blog everyday--i can get all my talking out that way. Also, I took a silly political quiz this morning to "match me with my ideal presidential candidate". (not romantically.) I'm weirded out: my closest match on the 2 tests i did was NOT Dennis Kucinich, as I had predicted, but Mitt Romney.
um.....what???!
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