It was a beautiful morning and I decided it was a good time to survey the estate, so, with coffee in hand I walked the perimeter and found, blooming in the garden, another perfect pink rose. "Time for a photograph." I said to myself and headed inside to get my camera. I'm not sure what it was that made me look up but, there, on the corner of the house, in the rain gutter, grew a weed.
That weed told me that it was time to clean out the gutters whether I wanted to or not. So after taking the photo of the rose I got out the ladder and headed up on the roof. The corner over the guest bedroom was blocked by overhanging tree limbs so I went back down to get the long handled clippers and set to work cutting away the offending branches. I got to work cleaning out the gutters on both sides of the house and went back down to clean up the branches I had just cut away.
By the time I was finished I had also cleared away some more ivy and "woodsy debris" from the far corner. I'm glad that I got the work done but see what happens when you get distracted by something out of the corner of your eye?
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finally put my little pontoon fishing boat into the water up on the Clackamas River at North Fork Reservoir. I rowed around for awhile and then made my way to a small inlet where there was less traffic and then rowed back to the launch site. It was about 2 lazy hours at the oars and then took a walk along the river on the old access road (about 2 miles). All in all it was a very nice day.
