{"id":1320,"date":"2008-11-22T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2008-11-22T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T20:59:10","slug":"cleaning-your-gutters-the-creative-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/cleaning-your-gutters-the-creative-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Your Gutters the Creative Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/kyle.php\">Kyle<\/a>, makes me laugh.  He likes to think of himself as a handy type of guy and prides himself on being able to do things around the house, rather than having to hire others.  So twice a year, he has to do one of his least favorite home maintenance projects, but really an important one; cleaning the gutters.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaning our gutters presents quite the challenge because they&#8217;re a good 30 feet off the ground.  Walking on our roof is not an option because it&#8217;s slate.  And you&#8217;d really just have to have a death wish to be up that high.  So you either need to put a ladder up and slowly work your way around the house climing up and down the ladder 10s of times, or find a better way.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Kyle seems to have found a better way.  He&#8217;s rigged up a Shop-Vac, about 30 feet of vacuum hose, and a telescoping pole so he can just walk around the house and suck the debris out of the gutters.  I think the neighbors thinks he&#8217;s nuts, but hey, it works!<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/None\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/0101.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"0101\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1325\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband, Kyle, makes me laugh. He likes to think of himself as a handy type of guy and prides himself on being able to do things around the house, rather than having to hire others. So twice a year, he has to do one of his least favorite home maintenance projects, but really an important one; cleaning the gutters. Cleaning our gutters presents quite the challenge because they&#8217;re a good 30 feet off the<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/cleaning-your-gutters-the-creative-way\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1575,1579],"tags":[2229],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-home-maintenance","tag-gutter-cleaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}