Domestic high-altitude afternoon

I spent the afternoon in a high-altitude adventure, putting all my climbing skills to good use. Yeah, I finally got around to cleaning out the gutters at home.

I know it's late in the season, but I prefer to wait for all of the whirly-bird seeds to work their way out of our two maple trees before I go up and start digging around. There's also a healthy haul of tiny needles from the neighbor's pine.

The task actually went pretty quick. There wasn't a lot of problems with clogs in the downspout elbows. Most of it was just freeing up the debris in the gutters.