good deeds of the day
May. 9th, 2025 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwTomorrow is the annual food drive sponsored by the USPS.
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/local-releases/ca/2025/0506-stamp-out-hunger-food-drive.htm
The Lexington food bank has been recruiting extra volunteers to deal with influx of canned goods or whatever.
Year-round there is a collection box at the local supermarket. I thought to myself, why buy the stuff, take it home, and remember to set it out tomorrow when I can just walk twenty feet from the checkout lane to the box and drop everything off there? So I bought a wide variety of shelf-stable foods (instead of my usual one or two items) and left it there. I like participating in big events. I think this still counts.
I had a gutter (the roof kind) expert come to give me an estimate. The current situation is ridiculous, with the gutters not wide enough and the downspouts weirdly arranged. Water overflows. It makes me mad every time there is a rainstorm, which is pretty often lately. (we're almost out of our drought situation).
This is the view from one side of the house last year. The kludge near the electric meter on the not shown side of the house is even worse
https://youtube.com/shorts/7tMiSyH0tek?feature=shared
While we were discussing the driveway side downspouts, I said "Excuse me, you have a tick in your ear." I ran inside to get the "tick key" https://tickkey.com/ from the medicine cabinet. (I thinknosrednayduj recommended this to me in the past). There I was, doing a minor medical procedure on a stranger's skin. It wasn't as simple as the directions indicated, but the tick was removed, and then we went back to gutter talk. (huh. I guess that has a different meaning sometimes).
It will be expensive. If everything works as well as he promised, it will be a big QOL improvement, possibly giving evidence to the idea that money can buy happiness.
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/local-releases/ca/2025/0506-stamp-out-hunger-food-drive.htm
The Lexington food bank has been recruiting extra volunteers to deal with influx of canned goods or whatever.
Year-round there is a collection box at the local supermarket. I thought to myself, why buy the stuff, take it home, and remember to set it out tomorrow when I can just walk twenty feet from the checkout lane to the box and drop everything off there? So I bought a wide variety of shelf-stable foods (instead of my usual one or two items) and left it there. I like participating in big events. I think this still counts.
I had a gutter (the roof kind) expert come to give me an estimate. The current situation is ridiculous, with the gutters not wide enough and the downspouts weirdly arranged. Water overflows. It makes me mad every time there is a rainstorm, which is pretty often lately. (we're almost out of our drought situation).
This is the view from one side of the house last year. The kludge near the electric meter on the not shown side of the house is even worse
https://youtube.com/shorts/7tMiSyH0tek?feature=shared
While we were discussing the driveway side downspouts, I said "Excuse me, you have a tick in your ear." I ran inside to get the "tick key" https://tickkey.com/ from the medicine cabinet. (I think
nosrednayduj recommended this to me in the past). There I was, doing a minor medical procedure on a stranger's skin. It wasn't as simple as the directions indicated, but the tick was removed, and then we went back to gutter talk. (huh. I guess that has a different meaning sometimes).It will be expensive. If everything works as well as he promised, it will be a big QOL improvement, possibly giving evidence to the idea that money can buy happiness.
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Date: 2025-05-12 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-12 11:45 pm (UTC)My parents had the kind of gutter cover that totally doesn't work. I don't know the brand name, but the water just ran over the top of the covers somehow.