We woke up to the pleasant sound of soft rain. Still, calm morning. Warmed the house by baking Grandma Ruth’s Buttermilk Biscuits and warming peaches in the sauce pan with butter and brown sugar.

Awana verses and math at the table with coffee and the whole family.

And then the Squall came – Hard rain. Sideways Rain. Pounds the house.  Uh-Oh. Water pouring out of the gutters. Which means – Someone has to go out on the ladder when the squall passes.  We could see the break in the clouds –

So now Jon has a new favorite activity – Gutter Cleaning.

He likes that just a tiny amount of needles can cause the water to back up, that two Sitka spruce cones can block the whole line, that you get to climb ladders. He offered to just walk the roof line to get out the tiny items, but Um, NO.  So – the sudden hard downpour cleaned off the roof, the boy cleaned out the gutters, and I don’t have to get the black gunk on my fingers. Pretty much a perfect day.