31 and sunny

 

Here it's oak leaves in the gutters. The pine needles sound worse. I used to have a screen over the gutters but the roofers ruined it. It was a long strip of wire mesh that perfectly fit inside the gutter lip.

 

I thought about going with the mesh gutter covers, but a neighbor of mine put them on his house a few years ago and found out that a lot of the pine needles still managed to work their way through. While the guards seemed to delay the amount of time between gutter cleanings, you still ended up having to do it and then you had to remove the guards just to get to the debris. I would imagine they might work better with the broader leaves of the deciduous trees you have, but with the pine needles they are less effective.

I also looked into installing the clog-free gutters that you see advertised, but about fell over when I saw how much they cost to do my whole house! The only way I could have justified the cost would be if I had a heavily-treed lot, but with mine, all I have to battle are the needles from my neighbors pine trees.

I suppose this means in about two years I'll start a thread about all the drawbacks to only having gutters on the front elevation of your house.....

 

Got my front trees trimmed up and thinned out some today

 

When I first read that I read it as tires trimmed. Thought what in the world?

Just took a long walk with Maggie. Did our tax return this afternoon.

 

Funny because my phone initially tried to autocorrect to trees

 

Watching SNL 40..one of the view modern shows that isn't straight garbage like many new movies. Amazing its been on that long.

 

96 hours this week....Cha ching

 

 

Nice 40* mornin

 

Nice 40* mornin

 

Morning! Off today. Spending the day looking at homeowner's insurance quotes. I'm getting old.

 

That's insane!

 

upper 70s yesterday, today 28 and ice.

 

upper 70s yesterday, today 28 and ice.