Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 1:49:03 PM UTC-5, philo wrote:
Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster

On 7/17/2015 1:48 PM, philo wrote:
Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

Do you do new roofs, too? We need one soon. LOL

--
Maggie

Uncle Monster wrote in
:

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were
you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement
at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's
stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster



You old guys must spend a lot of time on your knees in the men's room.
Give that up and you'll live longer.

On 7/17/15 2:48 PM, philo wrote:

I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it

Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

At one time, I loved going aloft on a swaying ship. I would have jumped
at the chance to go aloft in a storm. In my late 30s, I suddenly became
uneasy on roofs. My balance seemed fine on the ground, but I didn't
trust it on a roof.

I'd anchor the base of a ladder in case I had trouble getting off or on
at the top. I'd move slowly. If I had to go near an edge, I'd hold a
rope.

One day when I was 60, 70 mph gusts came up, like a thunderstorm without
thunder, clouds, or rain. I saw the gusts catch my singles at the gable
and begin tearing them off wholesale.

Feeling an adrenaline surge, I threw up my ladder. I didn't bother to
secure it because the gusts pushed it against the eave. It might shake,
but I figured it would probably be there when I needed to come down.

I ran up the ladder with my hands full of shingles, nails, and a hammer.
On the roof in the gusts, I felt as agile and confident as a young
sailor in a storm.

Balance comes from three inputs: the inner ears, foot pressure, and
vision. Contradictory inputs aboard ship can cause nausea. When you
step onto a 6/12 hip roof, your brain must resolve seemingly
contradictory inputs, and momentary confusion could be fatal. The reason
I was so agile in the emergency was that adrenaline had increased
respiration, which had reduced blood CO2, which had sped up my brain.

Normal people breathe faster in high places. My balance on roofs was
dangerously slow because my respiration didn't usually increase. I
wondered why.

Research showed that the respiration control in the brain normally
changes CO2 levels several times in 24 hours, and that it's triggered by
potassium. I read elsewhere that many people, especially some men,
require far more than the RDA of potassium.

Potatoes and beans are much better sources than Gatorade. I began eating
potato every morning and beans most evenings. One day I sawed limbs
with an extension ladder and a 15-foot pole saw. I sawed the last ones
from the roof. As soon as I stepped onto the sloped roof, I found
myself breathing hard, as if I'd exerted myself climbing the ladder.
That couldn't have been it. I'd been climbing that ladder and sawing
for a couple of hours without breathing hard.

My respiration center was calling for a sudden reduction on CO2 because
the situation challenged my balance. In a minute my breathing slowed
and I felt great. I didn't need no stinking safety line to stand at the
eave and reach out to saw.

I wouldn't have had to endure all those years of slow balance if
somebody had told me to eat more beans like Donald Trump's daring
Mexican window washers.

On 7/17/2015 2:48 PM, philo wrote:
Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

On Halloween with granddaughter wife noticed 81 year old neighbor was
missing a tooth. When asked, he said he fell off the roof.

Another neighbor, 75, was killed by partially fallen tree he was
chainsawing.

These are fun activities that I've given up.

Zak W wrote:
Uncle Monster wrote in
:

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were
you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement
at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's
stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster



You old guys must spend a lot of time on your knees in the men's room.
Give that up and you'll live longer.


66 plus 9 is my age at present. I still climb my antenna tower, on the
ladder to gutter upstairs ~36' high. In working days used to climb 180'
MW antenna tower some times.

On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 10:53:42 PM UTC-5, Tony Hwang wrote:
Zak W wrote:
Uncle Monster wrote in
:

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were
you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement
at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's
stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster



You old guys must spend a lot of time on your knees in the men's room.
Give that up and you'll live longer.


66 plus 9 is my age at present. I still climb my antenna tower, on the
ladder to gutter upstairs ~36' high. In working days used to climb 180'
MW antenna tower some times.

I used to climb to the top of 80 foot self supporting commercial two way radio towers as my brother did and swing back and forth shouting WEEEEE! WEEEEE!. Those were more fun than the Rhon towers with guy wires. Yep, I was bonkers when I was a young man. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Crazy Monster

On 07/17/2015 04:19 PM, Frank wrote:

These are fun activities that I've given up.


I gave up changing me oil. Too cheap to have
a professional do it.

On 7/18/2015 3:00 AM, T wrote:
On 07/17/2015 04:19 PM, Frank wrote:

These are fun activities that I've given up.


I gave up changing me oil. Too cheap to have
a professional do it.

Me too. Cost was not an issue but it was more convenient to not have to
take it someplace and have to wait.

On 7/17/15 11:53 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:
Zak W wrote:
Uncle Monster wrote in
:

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were
you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement
at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's
stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster



You old guys must spend a lot of time on your knees in the men's room.
Give that up and you'll live longer.


66 plus 9 is my age at present. I still climb my antenna tower, on the
ladder to gutter upstairs ~36' high. In working days used to climb 180'
MW antenna tower some times.

Erecting the ladder sounds like a bigger obstacle than climbing it. My
first job out of high school was house painting. My extension ladder was
longer and heavier than I'd encountered before. On the ground,
repositioning it was such a hassle that I preferred to do it from the
top by getting the ladder to hop sideways.

The boss paid me for the first house and said nothing about coming back.
That's when it dawned on me that he didn't appreciate my daring and
resourceful work.

On 7/17/2015 3:59 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 1:49:03 PM UTC-5, philo wrote:
Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster


Thanks to a neighbor's tree, we get a couple of bushels of maple seeds
in the gutters on our garage every year. Hubby and I were setting up to
clean them out (one story home) when my son came over with his gizmo
that attaches to the garden hose to wash out the seed. The rod for the
gizmo is extendible and has a hook-shape at the top to go over the rim
of the gutter.....wouldn't work well I suppose for gutters as loaded as
ours, but for finishing up it was great. While he was at it, he
tightened up the fasteners on the gutter and rescued some frogs and
toads from the window wells. On his "vacation", he picked his way
through about 50' of hardpan to put in a french drain from his
downspouts to roadside pipe. Penny pincher. I wish he'd spend more
time fishing so we'd have some good fish frys!

On 7/18/15 2:51 AM, Uncle Monster wrote:
I used to climb to the top of 80 foot self supporting commercial two
way radio towers as my brother did and swing back and forth shouting
WEEEEE! WEEEEE!. Those were more fun than the Rhon towers with guy
wires. Yep, I was bonkers when I was a young man. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Crazy Monster

At 11, I was hiking up a mountain behind my father when a cliff on the
other side of a brook inspired me. I crossed the brook and went around
the cliff to come out on top for the view.

I could see over the pines. The base of the cliff was below ground level
where the pines were, so I guess it was 80 feet or higher.

Looking down, I realized I could go delightfully fast if I jumped from
that height, and I thought I could hold out my arms to keep from going
headfirst. So I did. My feet hit the bottom so hard that I flipped and
went headfirst into boulders and logs, like being shot out of a cannon.
It was so much fun that I did it again. That time, I slightly injured
my shoulder when I flew headlong into a log. It was worth it.

I figured I'd better catch up with my father. I didn't have to. He
stepped from behind a bush. He said he'd thought the first fall would be
fatal. He couldn't believe his luck when I did it again. He'd been
thinking about what he'd tell the cops.

"Uncle Monster" wrote in message
...

On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 1:49:03 PM UTC-5, philo wrote:
Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were you
in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement at the VA.
I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's stapled back together.
^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster


I remember smoking a lotta weed in Nam, now that someone said Joint.

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 7:41:40 AM UTC-5, NorMinn wrote:

Thanks to a neighbor's tree, we get a couple of bushels of maple seeds
in the gutters on our garage every year. Hubby and I were setting up to
clean them out (one story home) when my son came over


I went to Home Depot 7 years ago and bought two or three boxes
of gutter guards. They slip under your last run of shingles
and over your gutter. They allow rain runoff from your roof
but it blocks leaves. No more filled gutters! No more paying
someone to clean out the gutters every year!

On 7/18/15 9:17 AM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 7:41:40 AM UTC-5, NorMinn wrote:

Thanks to a neighbor's tree, we get a couple of bushels of maple seeds
in the gutters on our garage every year. Hubby and I were setting up to
clean them out (one story home) when my son came over


I went to Home Depot 7 years ago and bought two or three boxes
of gutter guards. They slip under your last run of shingles
and over your gutter. They allow rain runoff from your roof
but it blocks leaves. No more filled gutters! No more paying
someone to clean out the gutters every year!

That's crazy! Whoever heard of putting guitar guards under shingles!

On 07/17/2015 02:59 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 1:49:03 PM UTC-5, philo wrote:
Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster



As far as pain goes I was one of the lucky ones.

Standard procedure is a morphine drip for the first 48 hours then on to
pain pills. After a week of pain pills they started giving me the hives
so I just stopped taking them.

Though they would have been able to switch me to something else. the
pain was mostly gone by then so I did without.


Very slow going for the first two weeks but little by little better.


Now there is absolutely no pain at all and I can be on my feet all day.


The only problem I had was excess scar tissue build up and one leg does
not bend as far as the other.

The doctor removed the scar tissue and I got some improvement
and and thinking of seeing if anything more can be done...but I am so
much better than I was before...not much to complain about.

On 07/17/2015 10:53 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:
Zak W wrote:
Uncle Monster wrote in
:

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were
you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement
at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's
stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster



You old guys must spend a lot of time on your knees in the men's room.
Give that up and you'll live longer.


66 plus 9 is my age at present. I still climb my antenna tower, on the
ladder to gutter upstairs ~36' high. In working days used to climb 180'
MW antenna tower some times.



Ham radio?

I got my license 50 years ago and am now inactive though still licensed.


Never was one for going up on a tower though, had my beam roof mounted
and no...I do not go up on roofs...even when I was young.

On 07/18/2015 07:45 AM, J Burns wrote:
On 7/18/15 2:51 AM, Uncle Monster wrote:
I used to climb to the top of 80 foot self supporting commercial two
way radio towers as my brother did and swing back and forth shouting
WEEEEE! WEEEEE!. Those were more fun than the Rhon towers with guy
wires. Yep, I was bonkers when I was a young man. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Crazy Monster

At 11, I was hiking up a mountain behind my father when a cliff on the
other side of a brook inspired me. I crossed the brook and went around
the cliff to come out on top for the view.

I could see over the pines. The base of the cliff was below ground level
where the pines were, so I guess it was 80 feet or higher.



Oh boy...that was dumber than anything I've ever done.

sheesh

On 07/18/2015 07:25 AM, J Burns wrote:
On 7/17/15 11:53 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:
Zak W wrote:
Uncle Monster wrote in
:

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were
you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement
at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's
stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster



You old guys must spend a lot of time on your knees in the men's room.
Give that up and you'll live longer.


66 plus 9 is my age at present. I still climb my antenna tower, on the
ladder to gutter upstairs ~36' high. In working days used to climb 180'
MW antenna tower some times.

Erecting the ladder sounds like a bigger obstacle than climbing it. My
first job out of high school was house painting. My extension ladder was
longer and heavier than I'd encountered before. On the ground,
repositioning it was such a hassle that I preferred to do it from the
top by getting the ladder to hop sideways.

The boss paid me for the first house and said nothing about coming back.
That's when it dawned on me that he didn't appreciate my daring and
resourceful work.



Yeah , when I was young and painted house for a living we'd sometimes
"walk the ladder" from above.


We did not own a 40 ft ladder though and if we needed one we'd rent
it...then one day Ed realized we could tie our shorter ladder together
to get to 40 feet.

The was the only time I did not go up to the top so Ed volunteered.

This was back in the days of wooden ladders and that sucker was
heavy...and though we managed to get it up...the only way we could get
it down was to let it fall!


That was fun.

On 07/18/2015 07:41 AM, Norminn wrote:
On 7/17/2015 3:59 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 1:49:03 PM UTC-5, philo wrote:
Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were
you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement
at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's
stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster


Thanks to a neighbor's tree, we get a couple of bushels of maple seeds
in the gutters on our garage every year. Hubby and I were setting up to
clean them out (one story home) when my son came over with his gizmo
that attaches to the garden hose to wash out the seed. The rod for the
gizmo is extendible and has a hook-shape at the top to go over the rim
of the gutter.....wouldn't work well I suppose for gutters as loaded as
ours, but for finishing up it was great. While he was at it, he
tightened up the fasteners on the gutter and rescued some frogs and
toads from the window wells. On his "vacation", he picked his way
through about 50' of hardpan to put in a french drain from his
downspouts to roadside pipe. Penny pincher. I wish he'd spend more
time fishing so we'd have some good fish frys!



I was wondering about using some sort of power sprayer, but the roots in
the gutter were growing everywhere and even pulling them out by hand was
not easy. Amazing how much can accumulate in a year. I managed to get
the neighbor's tree pretty well trimmed away from the house...but the
branches will grow back I'm sure.

On 07/18/2015 08:17 AM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 7:41:40 AM UTC-5, NorMinn wrote:

Thanks to a neighbor's tree, we get a couple of bushels of maple seeds
in the gutters on our garage every year. Hubby and I were setting up to
clean them out (one story home) when my son came over


I went to Home Depot 7 years ago and bought two or three boxes
of gutter guards. They slip under your last run of shingles
and over your gutter. They allow rain runoff from your roof
but it blocks leaves. No more filled gutters! No more paying
someone to clean out the gutters every year!




Sounds like a great idea!

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 1:50:05 PM UTC-5, philo wrote:

On 07/18/2015 08:17 AM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 7:41:40 AM UTC-5, NorMinn wrote:

Thanks to a neighbor's tree, we get a couple of bushels of maple seeds
in the gutters on our garage every year. Hubby and I were setting up to
clean them out (one story home) when my son came over


I went to Home Depot 7 years ago and bought two or three boxes
of gutter guards. They slip under your last run of shingles
and over your gutter. They allow rain runoff from your roof
but it blocks leaves. No more filled gutters! No more paying
someone to clean out the gutters every year!




Sounds like a great idea!

It IS a great idea and if the poster J Burns would stop
by Home Depot and take a look at these gutter guards he
would see how they are installed/attached. I know longer
have to deal with cleaning gutters every year nor looking
at the water flowing over the edge of said gutters like
a waterfall.

Highly recommend these!

Gutter guards from Home Depot.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Amerimax-...70BX/100520851

On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 4:19:59 PM UTC-7, Frank wrote:
On 7/17/2015 2:48 PM, philo wrote:


On Halloween with granddaughter wife noticed 81 year old neighbor was
missing a tooth. When asked, he said he fell off the roof.

Another neighbor, 75, was killed by partially fallen tree he was
chainsawing.

These are fun activities that I've given up.

I'm 80 Been heating with wood since 1976. Still out there cutting but my "work" day is down to 3 or 4 hours. Ladders? I swore off of them a few years ago but got my hat knocked off under a black walnut last week, out with ladder and up it with my top handle chainsaw. Cut branch leaving a stub, cut stum and it nailed my nose and chin as it fell.

Knees? Nope but I did have both hips replaced about 15 years ago. Didn't slow me down except for the recovery period. From the stories I heard, I do NOT

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 12:35:42 PM UTC-7, Harry K wrote:
On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 4:19:59 PM UTC-7, Frank wrote:
On 7/17/2015 2:48 PM, philo wrote:


On Halloween with granddaughter wife noticed 81 year old neighbor was
missing a tooth. When asked, he said he fell off the roof.

Another neighbor, 75, was killed by partially fallen tree he was
chainsawing.

These are fun activities that I've given up.

I'm 80 Been heating with wood since 1976. Still out there cutting but my "work" day is down to 3 or 4 hours. Ladders? I swore off of them a few years ago but got my hat knocked off under a black walnut last week, out with ladder and up it with my top handle chainsaw. Cut branch leaving a stub, cut stum and it nailed my nose and chin as it fell.

Knees? Nope but I did have both hips replaced about 15 years ago. Didn't slow me down except for the recovery period. From the stories I heard, I do NOT

(added, hit send too soon) I do NOT want anything to do with knee replacements

Harry K

On 7/18/15 3:26 PM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 1:50:05 PM UTC-5, philo wrote:

On 07/18/2015 08:17 AM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 7:41:40 AM UTC-5, NorMinn wrote:

Thanks to a neighbor's tree, we get a couple of bushels of maple seeds
in the gutters on our garage every year. Hubby and I were setting up to
clean them out (one story home) when my son came over


I went to Home Depot 7 years ago and bought two or three boxes
of gutter guards. They slip under your last run of shingles
and over your gutter. They allow rain runoff from your roof
but it blocks leaves. No more filled gutters! No more paying
someone to clean out the gutters every year!




Sounds like a great idea!

It IS a great idea and if the poster J Burns would stop
by Home Depot and take a look at these gutter guards he
would see how they are installed/attached. I know longer
have to deal with cleaning gutters every year nor looking
at the water flowing over the edge of said gutters like
a waterfall.

Highly recommend these!

Do the guitar guards at Home Depot have gold lacquer? With his excellent
taste, Eddie Cochran removed the gold lacquer from his.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/121949102383676016/

On 7/18/15 2:43 PM, philo wrote:
On 07/18/2015 07:45 AM, J Burns wrote:
On 7/18/15 2:51 AM, Uncle Monster wrote:
I used to climb to the top of 80 foot self supporting commercial two
way radio towers as my brother did and swing back and forth shouting
WEEEEE! WEEEEE!. Those were more fun than the Rhon towers with guy
wires. Yep, I was bonkers when I was a young man. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Crazy Monster

At 11, I was hiking up a mountain behind my father when a cliff on the
other side of a brook inspired me. I crossed the brook and went around
the cliff to come out on top for the view.

I could see over the pines. The base of the cliff was below ground level
where the pines were, so I guess it was 80 feet or higher.



Oh boy...that was dumber than anything I've ever done.

sheesh

It was out of character for me. Two years earlier, a friend had had to
show me repeatedly that I could jump from my tree house without breaking
a leg. That was about ten feet high.

The idea of jumping off the cliff didn't occur to me until I looked from
the top. It was covered with ice. That meant that whatever I might hit
on the way down, I wouldn't tumble and break my neck.

It was late winter. The snow pack had melted down to two feet, with a
thick ice crust. I didn't see any accumulation of snow at the bottom.
From that height, two feet of snow wouldn't make much difference. I
saw the outlines of logs and boulders.

I knew it was irrational, but living rationally will bore a boy to
death. At the base, the cliff curved out sharply enough that when my
feet hit, I flipped and went headlong horizontally through the crust
like a Coast Guard icebreaker. Now I knew why I'd been born with a
skull, which teachers told me was very thick. A few feet of that slowed
me enough that I wasn't injured when I hit the logs and boulders.

So I did it again to see if it would work a second time.

On 07/17/2015 03:01 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 7/17/2015 1:48 PM, philo wrote:
Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

Do you do new roofs, too? We need one soon. LOL




The one time I helped someone roof a house was a one-story ranch style.


Next roof here is going to be a "tear-off" so I better pus some money
away fom it...will prob. need it within the next 5 years.

On 07/17/2015 06:11 PM, J Burns wrote:
On 7/17/15 2:48 PM, philo wrote:

I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it

Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

At one time, I loved going aloft on a swaying ship. I would have jumped
at the chance to go aloft in a storm. In my late 30s, I suddenly became
uneasy on roofs. My balance seemed fine on the ground, but I didn't
trust it on a roof.




Some sailor I'd be/// got seasick crossing the English Channel

On 07/17/2015 06:19 PM, Frank wrote:
On 7/17/2015 2:48 PM, philo wrote:
Busy day
My wife in her studio painting. A friend was over here remodeling our
dining room...I figure today would be a good day to trim the tree and
clean out the rain gutter
I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it
Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?
I think she figured it out anyway as I was full of dead leaves and plant
roots.
Amazingly...none got in my hair though.

(Bald)


66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

On Halloween with granddaughter wife noticed 81 year old neighbor was
missing a tooth. When asked, he said he fell off the roof.

Another neighbor, 75, was killed by partially fallen tree he was
chainsawing.

These are fun activities that I've given up.




Friend of mine lost his 90 year old dad, because he fell off the roof.

After the roofers left...he just had to go up there to see what kind of
a job they were doing.

On 07/18/2015 02:35 PM, Harry K wrote:
snip


I'm 80 Been heating with wood since 1976. Still out there cutting but my "work" day is down to 3 or 4 hours. Ladders? I swore off of them a few years ago but got my hat knocked off under a black walnut last week, out with ladder and up it with my top handle chainsaw. Cut branch leaving a stub, cut stum and it nailed my nose and chin as it fell.

Knees? Nope but I did have both hips replaced about 15 years ago. Didn't slow me down except for the recovery period. From the stories I heard, I do NOT




When I was in the Army I took leave with a friend of mine to visit his
grandfather in rural England.


He was about 80 and heated his house only with wood he cut himself.


Me and my buddy decided to help him and went at it with a 2 man saw.


He came over laughing and said we'd never get it cut that way and just
did it himself.

On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 06:17:59 -0700 (PDT), ItsJoanNotJoann
wrote:

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 7:41:40 AM UTC-5, NorMinn wrote:

Thanks to a neighbor's tree, we get a couple of bushels of maple seeds
in the gutters on our garage every year. Hubby and I were setting up to
clean them out (one story home) when my son came over


I went to Home Depot 7 years ago and bought two or three boxes
of gutter guards. They slip under your last run of shingles
and over your gutter. They allow rain runoff from your roof
but it blocks leaves. No more filled gutters! No more paying
someone to clean out the gutters every year!
I did the same. Bought 20 foot lengths for the upper roof and put
them on when the roof was replaced. Bought the rest in 4 foot pieces,
5 to the box, and did the garage and lower roof. Haven't done the
shed yet - but I will do it when I reshingle the roof.

On 7/18/15 4:52 PM, philo wrote:
On 07/17/2015 06:11 PM, J Burns wrote:
On 7/17/15 2:48 PM, philo wrote:

I made sure the ladder was firmly anchored so it would not slip...Friend
came out to take a break and saw me up on the ladder.
I told him not to tell my wife I was up there as she would not like it

Later when the three of us were in the kitchen having coffee...he asks
me ...with wife listening of course...
So, when can I tell her...in 20 years?

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

At one time, I loved going aloft on a swaying ship. I would have jumped
at the chance to go aloft in a storm. In my late 30s, I suddenly became
uneasy on roofs. My balance seemed fine on the ground, but I didn't
trust it on a roof.




Some sailor I'd be/// got seasick crossing the English Channel

Sometimes in stormy weather I'd do my best to look seasick so nobody
would bother me when I took time off for a nap.

On 7/18/2015 4:53 PM, philo wrote:

Friend of mine lost his 90 year old dad, because he fell off the roof.

After the roofers left...he just had to go up there to see what kind of
a job they were doing.

My one great grand father died at 93. The boy
didn't show up to mow the lawn. Screw it, he
said, and.... didn't live to tell.

Edwin Eugene Young, Cobelskill, NY.

--
..
Christopher A. Young
learn more about Jesus
.. www.lds.org
..
..

On 7/18/2015 4:56 PM, philo wrote:
When I was in the Army I took leave with a friend of mine to visit his
grandfather in rural England.

He was about 80 and heated his house only with wood he cut himself.

Me and my buddy decided to help him and went at it with a 2 man saw.

He came over laughing and said we'd never get it cut that way and just
did it himself.


Grandfather Eddie heated with wood. Ran out,
one year. Sawed up and burned a player piano
in the cellar.

--
..
Christopher A. Young
learn more about Jesus
.. www.lds.org
..
..

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 2:31:33 PM UTC-5, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
Gutter guards from Home Depot.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Amerimax-...70BX/100520851

I put those gutter guards on some of my gutters. However, in some places the gutters were too much above or below the shingle edge to use them. Perhaps my gutters have too much slope but how do you deal with that situation?

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 5:08:36 PM UTC-5, wrote:

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 2:31:33 PM UTC-5, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:

Gutter guards from Home Depot.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Amerimax-...70BX/100520851

I put those gutter guards on some of my gutters. However, in some places the gutters were too much above or below the shingle edge to use them. Perhaps my gutters have too much slope but how do you deal with that situation?


I don't know, I didn't have that problem.

On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:08:32 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 2:31:33 PM UTC-5, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
Gutter guards from Home Depot.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Amerimax-...70BX/100520851

I put those gutter guards on some of my gutters. However, in some places the gutters were too much above or below the shingle edge to use them. Perhaps my gutters have too much slope but how do you deal with that situation?
Mine didn't actually fit under the shingles - they somehow clipped in
at the facia board, and clipped over the rough where they were
fastened with a screw every couple feet.

On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 4:14:50 PM UTC-5, Zak W wrote:
Uncle Monster wrote in
:

66 years old, both knees replaced 3 yrs ago

I need both knees myself. How was your recovery and how much pain were
you in? My new roommate here is 75 and he just had a knee replacement
at the VA. I tell him he must be made of cardboard because he's
stapled back together. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Joint Monster



You old guys must spend a lot of time on your knees in the men's room.
Give that up and you'll live longer.

Oh Zak-job, it's so wonderful to have a Gay fanboy like you. I think you're really something special. Thanks for all the love and best wishes. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Thankful Monster