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[BethAnne]

Computer being very difficult

 

[BetteTheRed]

I got most of the east side of the eavestroughs (the bad ones, also the ones neighbour was complaining about due to weeds growing out of them) done today, and the extension ladder through the gate and into the back yard. Did I mention how heavy this ladder is? Maybe an upgrade to an aluminum extension ladder is overdue.

 

[BethAnne]

I got most of the east side of the eavestroughs (the bad ones, also the ones neighbour was complaining about due to weeds growing out of them) done today, and the extension ladder through the gate and into the back yard. Did I mention how heavy this ladder is? Maybe an upgrade to an aluminum extension ladder is overdue.

You did...and for some reason I thought you had an aluminum one.

 

[BetteTheRed]

I have an aluminum step ladder, which does much of what I need to do. To do eavestroughs requires an extension ladder, and it's hardwood, and heavy.

 

[BethAnne]

I have an aluminum step ladder, which does much of what I need to do. To do eavestroughs requires an extension ladder, and it's hardwood, and heavy.

Ah...but very sturdy

 

[Mendalla]

As someone who will not go more than three steps up even a step ladder, my hat goes off to @BetteTheRed. Extension ladders are something that exists in my nightmares.

 

[BetteTheRed]

I find that a bit hilarious, when the alternative is scooting my butt around the roof, dangling feet over, pitching stuff over. Ladders always seemed relatively safe. And a properly pitched extension ladder, versus tiptoeing on the top of a 6' step ladder, seems really safe... It really is just the heaviness of the extension ladder that makes it so awkward.

 

[Luce NDs]

Thus hats go up like stovepipes ... A' Lincoln?

 

[Mendalla]

, when the alternative is scooting my butt around the roof

For me, the alternative would be paying someone who doesn't have acrophobia to do it. My house is a fairly tall two storey so even getting to the roof to butt scoot on it would still require the extension ladder from hell. Well, except the garage roof, which I could access by climbing out the den window.

 

[BethAnne]

 

[BetteTheRed]

My house is a fairly tall two storey so even getting to the roof to butt scoot on it would still require the extension ladder from hell.

I wouldn't even consider that. I don't mind moderate heights, but this is a bungalow we're discussing, with not a very steep roof pitch.

 

[KayTheCurler]

I have an aluminum step ladder, which does much of what I need to do. To do eavestroughs requires an extension ladder, and it's hardwood, and heavy.

I am spoiled and indulged. My partner does all the things that require a ladder. However, he does have a light one.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Yes, I'm beginning to think that's my solution. Not the guy, the lighter ladder.

 

[Mendalla]

I am spoiled and indulged. My partner does all the things that require a ladder. However, he does have a light one.

We both use ladders, but I seem to do most of the carrying and setting up.

We don't have any extension ladders (neighbour has one we can borrow) though. We do have two step-ladders, a 6' and an 8'.

 

[BethAnne]

I have two aluminum extension ladders that I haven't touched since the LAST time Dad used them and a 6' wooden stepladder that I use...anything else, I ask the neighbours to help with

 

[Luce NDs]

It is said the light laðð'r to heaven is something prone to fallacy ...

 

[BethAnne]

Finally heard back re: the submission I sent to the first gallery...they said no they were overwhelmed with submissions and could only pick 6...BUT...they then touched base re the second proposal to exhibit my crochet dolls (that was accepted) for the smaller gallery and they were so impressed with my first submission that they want to EXPAND my second one to include some (but not all) of the artwork from my first submission (and some items will need to be tweaked to be displayed differently - ie skies on paper to go in frames not the printed canvases I have). OH WOW!!!!!

 

[BetteTheRed]

anything else, I ask the neighbours to help with

I am very terrible at asking for help. In all fairness, for 24.5 years, if I needed muscle, I called my old Hippie and he came and helped out. He didn't help with routine stuff, unless I asked him, but all his friends knew that if you wanted help with something, you needed only to ask once, and he'd be on it. He had neighbours a few doors down, and I still see her regularly in the grocery store. Her hubby was/is a long distance trucker, so if he was away, and she needed help with something that required muscle, she knew he'd always be right there.

 

[BethAnne]

I am very terrible at asking for help. In all fairness, for 24.5 years, if I needed muscle, I called my old Hippie and he came and helped out. He didn't help with routine stuff, unless I asked him, but all his friends knew that if you wanted help with something, you needed only to ask once, and he'd be on it. He had neighbours a few doors down, and I still see her regularly in the grocery store. Her hubby was/is a long distance trucker, so if he was away, and she needed help with something that required muscle, she knew he'd always be right there.

I've had no choice re asking for help the past few years.

 

[BetteTheRed]

I'm definitely there now, but I'm still stubbornly resisting. It will take me days, and quite a bit of risk, to accomplish what $100 would probably pay for...