Current Day
Current DayWhy won’t this stuff come off? I fume, trying to scrub harder.
Why won’t this stuff come off?I’m way up on a ladder that is propped up outside my mother’s house. Scratch that — my mom died three years ago, and before that she didn’t really take care of the massive old Victorian house.
That is why I am on this ladder right now, furiously scrubbing at the spiderwebs and other black crud that has gathered along the eaves.
I guess that makes it my house now.
I guess that makes it my house now.I’ve got on an old long sleeve shirt, my oldest pair of jeans, and I have my long blonde hair tied up in a kerchief. It may be the summer, but it doesn’t get very warm here on the Oregon coast. At best, it will get into the sixties.
So really, cleaning the eaves of the house i
