Comments on: Ice-Free Eaves http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/ Darcy Casselman's weblog. Like the world needed another one. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:01:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Darcy Casselman http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Darcy Casselman Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:01:35 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/#comment-120 <p>Well, you could do what I did... Get up on a ladder and chip away.</p> <p><a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Belleville,+ON,+Canada" rel="nofollow">Belleville, Ontario</a> is my home town.</p> Well, you could do what I did… Get up on a ladder and chip away.

Belleville, Ontario is my home town.

]]> By: jeff lynch http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/comment-page-1/#comment-119 jeff lynch Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:53:20 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/#comment-119 <p>I am near pleasant ridge stor, I have too much ice in my eaves and why does your address talk about belleville with a ca email address?</p> I am near pleasant ridge stor, I have too much ice in my eaves and why does your address talk about belleville with a ca email address?

]]> By: Darcy Casselman http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Darcy Casselman Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:20:59 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/#comment-109 <p>Everybody should get a house! We need to commiserate over our shared stress. :P</p> <p>While I agree that it's far more likely kids will bounce upon hitting the ground, the neighbour kid in question was excited about doing <em>my</em> lawn because I have an electric lawnmower. He's not allowed to use a gas mower, he says.</p> <p>I'm pretty sure his parents might frown on my getting him up on a ladder. In winter. With ice on the roof.</p> <p>...Not that I've met them...</p> <p>That kid doesn't take instruction very well, either. I'd be half afraid I'd come back to find he'd not only cleaned the gutters but completely removed them from the eaves.</p> Everybody should get a house! We need to commiserate over our shared stress. :P

While I agree that it’s far more likely kids will bounce upon hitting the ground, the neighbour kid in question was excited about doing my lawn because I have an electric lawnmower. He’s not allowed to use a gas mower, he says.

I’m pretty sure his parents might frown on my getting him up on a ladder. In winter. With ice on the roof.

…Not that I’ve met them…

That kid doesn’t take instruction very well, either. I’d be half afraid I’d come back to find he’d not only cleaned the gutters but completely removed them from the eaves.

]]> By: tinkerer http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/comment-page-1/#comment-107 tinkerer Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:37:38 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/#comment-107 <p>I thought you had neighborhood kids? Like, that one that helped you mow? Just hire one of 'em to do the climbing--they <em>love</em> that kind of crap! My own (13 yr) punk thinks it is tres kewl to go climbing around on roofs...she cleaned out the gutters for her grandma just this past summer, and whacked up a bunch of bees' nests while she was at it. She was happy to do it for FREE, just to get to climb the ladder and hang out on the roof, although grandma insisted on paying her and asked my permission first.</p> <p>Seriously--hire kids. It is our duty as adults to 1) help the youth economy by hiring them as cheap labor & 2) allowing them the fun of risking THEIR bodies so that ours remain sound & viable.</p> <p>:D</p> I thought you had neighborhood kids? Like, that one that helped you mow? Just hire one of ‘em to do the climbing–they love that kind of crap! My own (13 yr) punk thinks it is tres kewl to go climbing around on roofs…she cleaned out the gutters for her grandma just this past summer, and whacked up a bunch of bees’ nests while she was at it. She was happy to do it for FREE, just to get to climb the ladder and hang out on the roof, although grandma insisted on paying her and asked my permission first.

Seriously–hire kids. It is our duty as adults to 1) help the youth economy by hiring them as cheap labor & 2) allowing them the fun of risking THEIR bodies so that ours remain sound & viable.

:D

]]> By: matt http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/comment-page-1/#comment-105 matt Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:20:04 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2007/12/08/ice-free-eaves/#comment-105 <p>Stop!</p> <p>You're making me want a house!</p> <p>:-)</p> <p>(No, seriously, I want a house. I just shudder at the thought of all the outdoor maintenance.)</p> <p>Hopefully we can catch up while you're in town. I'd think the odds are somewhat in our favour.</p> Stop!

You’re making me want a house!

:-)

(No, seriously, I want a house. I just shudder at the thought of all the outdoor maintenance.)

Hopefully we can catch up while you’re in town. I’d think the odds are somewhat in our favour.

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