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.