Well sooner or later I HAD to get back to posting on my blog. You know...that guilt of putting-things-off and then...it continues. Between burying Furr-Rr-Eee, painting the house many greys, replacing the damned DSL modem, repairing the picket fence, feeding too many Kats, BEING dAD to too many kittens etc. etc. All that and the angst of olde moldy age and you have a supreme wrap-up of the last period in yours truly's life. Those and the answered emails, the new dinners researched and cooked, and the most time wasting of all...FACEBOOK!
So today, boys and girls, the house gutters are being replaced by my little self. It is NOT a pleasant job in that the existing ones have to be pried off the house and are filled with enough raccoon shit to fertilize a mid-sized farmer's field. Yes, they live "upstairs", on the roof over the bedroom. We heard them at night doing whatever raccoons do. Well they doo-doo frequently at various locations on the roof. Wind and rain shuttle the lovely turds here and there until they are swept into the gutters.
Leaves clog all gutters unless you have those that have a ventilated cover and thus the water flow is too slow to send the offending shit along to the down spout and out to rest in the garden. Oh well.
So these gutters are being replaced after some 18 years of service, not bad...but they have been leaking on the north side for the last w-h-I-l-e if you get my drift. The new ones are plastic, vinyl actually, tough as nails, light and fairly easy to install. I have many feet to do. Yesterday I cut my first piece about 7 feet, installed three hangers in the appropriate spots and spent the next 20 minutes pushing the damned gutter into place on the hangers...not an easy task. More today.
It looks like rain. Dark clouds in the north and nearly no wind to speak of.
Not too bad of a guess.
Mosquito Meeting tonight. I'm a Trustee remember?
Bye for now!
So today, boys and girls, the house gutters are being replaced by my little self. It is NOT a pleasant job in that the existing ones have to be pried off the house and are filled with enough raccoon shit to fertilize a mid-sized farmer's field. Yes, they live "upstairs", on the roof over the bedroom. We heard them at night doing whatever raccoons do. Well they doo-doo frequently at various locations on the roof. Wind and rain shuttle the lovely turds here and there until they are swept into the gutters.
Leaves clog all gutters unless you have those that have a ventilated cover and thus the water flow is too slow to send the offending shit along to the down spout and out to rest in the garden. Oh well.
So these gutters are being replaced after some 18 years of service, not bad...but they have been leaking on the north side for the last w-h-I-l-e if you get my drift. The new ones are plastic, vinyl actually, tough as nails, light and fairly easy to install. I have many feet to do. Yesterday I cut my first piece about 7 feet, installed three hangers in the appropriate spots and spent the next 20 minutes pushing the damned gutter into place on the hangers...not an easy task. More today.
It looks like rain. Dark clouds in the north and nearly no wind to speak of.
Suisun City, CA
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Not too bad of a guess.
Mosquito Meeting tonight. I'm a Trustee remember?
Bye for now!
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