household chores
verabee
This weekend it was warm enough to do yard work without a jacket. The forecast for next weekend is for high temps below freezing. So this was a good time for outdoor chores. Saturday I raked the leaves in the back yard, the deck, and the side yard, but not the front. (It got dark). The county leaf-collection schedule says the vacuum truck won't be in our neighborhood again until the week after next (We missed the first round, but I'm not going to do a lot of raking before the leaves are off the trees!), so the pile on the deck is covered with a tarp, and the pile from the yard is bundled up in another tarp and sitting in a bare piece of garden close to the street. The yard could use one last mowing before winter.
Sunday I cleaned out the gutters and put up some Christmas lights - both tasks that needed the ladders. I don't plan to turn the lights on for at least another week or two, but you can't count on good weather for any upcoming weekends. (This is only the 2nd year we've managed to put the lights up at all.)
The stuff in the gutters looked much like what you'd want to find eventually in a compost pile. The gutters on the back of our house and around the carport have long level stretches with few downspouts. It's quite easy for material to accumulate rather than drain from light rain, and clog the few downspouts.
After all that I replaced the rear grip-shifter on my bike. The shifting stopped working on my ride home Friday, and I thought the cable had broken. After I took things apart, I found the cable intact, but a small plastic piece inside the shifter broken. I had another pair of shifters handy, so now I have a mismatched (no need to replace the front) but functional set in place for my commute Monday.
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