On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 07:59:10 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 10:29:14 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2021-06-03 9:28 p.m., cshenk wrote:
>> > John Kuthe wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 8:02:02 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
>> >> ....
>> >>> Hope you are ok John.
>> >>
>> >> Better every day, thanks! :-)
>> >>
>> >> John Kuthe, RN, BSN...
>> >
>> > Glad of it. Don gave me a scare yesterday when I heard a thump on the
>> > roof he'd insisted in climbing to clean the gutters. Today, he got out
>> > the Shepard's hook unit I got him that he'd forgotten about and tucked
>> > it on the porch for next time.
>> >
>> I had an accident while cleaning out the gutters a while back. I put the
>> ladder up against the side of the house and was careful to set it at an
>> appropriate angle. Luckily, it was at the lowest roof level on the
>> entire house, an eave overhanging a front corner. I got almost to the
>> roof level where I could climb over to it to clear that one and reach up
>> to the roof above. I didn't make it. The bottom of the ladder kicked out
>> ad went down. One leg went between the rungs while the other foot was
>> firmly on the rung. When I hit the ground the weight from one leg on
>> forced the rung harder against the one that had slipped through.
>>
>> It hurt like hell. I was afraid to step up to go through the front door,
>> seriously concerned that I might have broken a bone in my lower leg. I
>> spent a few hours in the ER before they determined it was no broken and
>> they gave me some much needed pain medication. The next time I was up
>> on the roof was to install gutter guards. They keep all the leaves and
>> crap out of the eaves trough and I will never have to go up and clean
>> them again.
>
>Which is why we bought a ranch house.
>
>We have gutter guards, but they still collect a little stuff. A walk around
>the house with the leaf blower and a Schedule 80 PVC "snorkel" that my
>husband made does the trick.
>
>Now that the maple trees are done, we'll have to get the "helicopters"
>out of the gutters.
>
>Cindy Hamilton
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Not Dave Smith.