I started feeling blah yesterday. It wasn’t for any obvious reason other than the typical February doldrums. No reason to feel down about Valentine’s Day, no reason to feel down about work stuff because I was in the same place I’ve always been every mid-February–piled on higher and deeper with work. And of course I had too much to do outside of the day jobbe, but again, that’s February for you. What else is new?
Well, I got a call from DS that there were some house issues going on. Deep sigh. Got home, figured out the gutters needed to be cleaned, and DH might very well be late getting home. So I took a deep breath, pulled out the extending ladder, and started working on gutters.
Our house is a one-story, thankfully. BUT. It’s a long one-story house, shaped somewhat like a L. Gutter cleaning in the best of situations takes a good forty-five minutes, and this was a winter evening. Post-sleet. Post-several days of hard winds. We don’t get leaves here as much as we do needles from the various Doug firs near the house…and boy, were those gutters full.
The good news was that I got the gutters clean. And I realized that I had a nasty cold sore brewing which had contributed to the overall feeling of malaise I was experiencing. So I had reasons. But still….bleh.
I will be so glad when February’s gone.
