Nothing gets you up on the roof faster than realizing that the first "real" rain of the season might be starting, and that there are six months worth of dead leaves filling your gutters.  

My first reaction when the pitter-patter began was to head out to our lovely outdoor patio upstairs to watch the sunset and storm interact over the estuary.  Light, flowing trees, gentle breezes, gray clouds, and zephyrs... OHCRAP!   The roof is probably covered in leaves!

Out comes the ladder, and up I went.  Sure enough, the leaves were nearly a foot thick in some places (our gutters are less than 6" deep). 

So far, the rain hasn't arrived with any force, just gentle droplets that more-or-less evaporate without flowing.  But at least there are mostly-clean gutters into which all the droplets can flow if their buddies decide to make a party of it tonight. 

And there is one less thing on my list of things to do.  Double-bonus.

Labels: house, tamarindo, weather