It is Mother's Day
Thank you Mom, for giving birth
To me, your son Mike
People celebrate Mother's Day in many ways. Some people buy gifts, such as Pink Flamingos. Others spend time cleaning their mother's yard.
I spent my mothers day doing various things.
Today I had my first run in with Gutter Toppers (TM). Gutter Toppers, for those of you lucky few who don't know, are metal screens that are supposed to keep your gutters clean from debris. They think that by screening out all the leaves and such, you won't have to clean the gutters and they won't get clogged.
These screens, however, have one crucial weakness. Helicopter seeds, the ones you throw up in the air and they spin like helicopters, are to gutter toppers what water is to a selectively permeable membrane.
You would expect the gutter toppers to keep out the seeds, but look what happens below....
The helicopters from hell
So back to my plight. My job was to pick out these seeds, which had become lodged in between the metal pores, and throw them to the ground. The only problem was that these seeds would not come out easily. They were stuck in the grate and had to picked out by hand, or sucked up by vacuum.
I got out some garden gloves, a study ladder, and my leftover dignity. A few hours later the gutters were clean, and the metal gutter toppers shone proudly before the shingles.
My task was done, and Mother's Day was a success.
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