In the Gutter

No, it's not my mind although some might argue and I don't mean I am feeling blue. I was working today on the roof. The gutter on the back of the house was overflowing during the last Monsoon season.
So it was up to someone to get on the roof and take action. Looking around I noticed that there were no other volunteers so I took matters into my own hands. I armed myself with a ladder, nails, hammer, the garden hose, a long sticked squigee, some gutter cover mesh, and an assistant (big ups Pops).
So I break out the brand new ladder, get Pops to hold it steady and head for the roof. The roof is a magical place. It's close to the sky and far away from the ground. It's a place where treasures can be found like the 1974 issue of the Brave and The Bold featuring Batman and Superman. I'm not saying that was up there, but it is a magical place.
The gutter was a full blown mosquito farm. The water up there had the look that swamp look to it. At any moment there could be a croc waiting to grab me by the arm and a drag me under. I got over my croc fears and forgot that I don't like to stick my hand in water with gunk in it. I don't even like it when food is floating around in my dishwater, so I was very proud of myself when I stuck my hand in the gutter drain to unclog it. I pulled out gunk like never before, leaves, pine cones ( not the big wooden Xmas ornament kind, just the small ones) and branches.
I pushed the hose into the drain and still no luck, plugged like a mother scratcher. I became inventive and turned a coat hanger into a drain snake and dug around. Success!! The water began to drain, but then it slowed to a trickle.
I had thoroughly cleaned out the gutter up top so there was only one place to go, Down.
I used the "snake" at the bottom of the gutter and rescued a golf ball and what at first I thought was a dead bird, but it just happened to be a couple of pine cones wrapped in some skanky leaves and twigs. Then it was like a giant zit popped, the water gushed and all is well.
The long sticked squigee was used to help roll out the mesh and then I nailed it down, that was the easiest part of the mission. In the other gutters I rescued a few more of the neighbor kid's balls and toys and threw them away. No way was I giving back the main reason that I was called to the roof.

Short, Sweet and a little Salty

It was brought to my attention that when I do blog, I blog big time. Like a Tsunami of thought, the words spill from my mind onto the screen and fill up the page. I can't help it, sometimes they just flow, so you end up with one of my huge blogs. I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I wrote down in words, how wonderful life is, that you're in the world. Sorry, musical tangent. That sneaky Elton john dropping lyrics in my head.
I pride myself on being mostly optimistic even in the face of impending doom.
"Hello Doom, pleased to meet ya!"
I just feel that things will work out if you have faith in yourself and the strength to go on. I don't waver much from that belief and most people who know me would agree. I also think that because I am that way, it shocks folks when I hit the "yuck" spot. I don't like the yuck spot. I would much rather be in the good spot, but I guess I need the yuck spot to realize when the good spot is good.
I am babbling tonight. I think it is sometimes hard for me to decide what I want the world to know about me. The Internet is forever and I want to be careful about what I put down here for public consumption.
By now I have told everyone I know about being in NYC and how much of a good time I had. The only thing I missed was Marvel Comics, but I can't say I missed it when I had the Uber cool private tour of DC Comics!! I know people who know people. :) I always wanted to be able to say that.
Ok, I will end the "short" blog with a list. You can hum this list to the tune of "Need You Tonight" by INXS. This would be the part where

Michael Hutchence is saying the words to the drum beat.

Memorial day
Eat and Play
The Punkin says "Uncle Ricky lets sway!"
Car delay
New Friend away
I love South Park when they say "Tim-May!!"

Shoes off
Feet in the grass
My mother giggles
grilling with gas
The Sith rocked
Vader burned his a.....
Batman Begins on that I can't pass

That may be it for the rhyming styles of Mikey H.
June will be a busy month. I have some weddings to go to, a couple of tux fittings (always a groomsman never a groom) I think I have been in about 10 weddings. Best man twice, a groomsman 18 times and an usher about 27 times.
The Batman Begins movie. Some major bike riding and a couple of big brother days and as well as some Uncle Ricky days and hangin' with the folks. Oh, and I am going to try my hand at landscaping..I will do it in babysteps.
Plus, I need to do something I have been kind of dreading. I know I need to get started, it's just that I don't want too. I don't feel like doing it. If I don't, then I will have dropped the proverbial ball. It causes me a a little distress and I worry about the comments and at the same time I could tell people to kiss it. I guess sometimes I worry too much.