As it rained yesterday, I realized that I needed to clean the gutters on the front of my house, plus if you look at my previous garage pictures, you can see the twigs from the glass trees next door are sticking up from my gutters (I don't know what kind of trees they are, but they will find any excuse to drop branches, as if they were made of glass. Actually, it might be better to call them German trees, because the Germans will find any excuse to invade Poland. Thunderstorm on Tuesday? Invade Poland!). So, today I did it. I apologize for the lack of "after" pictures, but you must understand that even with gloves on, my hands were kinda icky and gross, and I didn't bring my phone up on the ladder with me, because I was afraid of breaking it if I fell. Let's look at the garage gutters:
Eww! I filled two five gallon buckets between the two gutters (South and North sides). It was disgusting. I was not looking forward to cleaning the gutters on the house, because I had a reasonable level of comfort on the step ladder. (It's not my real ladder, but I treat it like my own. Thanks, I'll be here all night!) Well, as much comfort as someone scared of heights can have standing on a ladder. But the house is taller, so it required my extension ladder. And was scary. The front of the house, I had to lean the ladder against the house and kinda reach over and grab the goo. Ick. The back side, I could only read the lower of the two gutters. As pictured below, the ladder was too short for the bent gutter area. On the other hand, I did realize as I went to put my ladder away that I may not have had the gutter fully extended. Oops.
On the plus side, the shorter gutter (on the edge of the picture above) was mostly cleaned out when the tree branches fell on my house in June and my dad was up on the roof cutting it up (which is when that gutter got bent). There was only a little bit of "junk" by the spout. (Oh, I think I forgot to reattach that spout. I'll have to remember that tomorrow.) The front of the house--which was overflowing with the rain yesterday!--was almost completely empty. It was only a pile-up of junk by the spout that I needed to clean out. WIN! And there's no tree there, so hopefully there will be less leaves falling into it this fall! :fingers crossed:
Tomorrow, I'm going to head back out to scrape more paint off the garage. Because that's how I roll.
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