Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So it's around 2:15 a.m., and because I'm auditorially challenged and don't sleep with my hearing aids in, I'm sleeping soundly, oblivious to the roar of the 50 mph plus wind, when my dear wife wakes me to ask if I hear the dripping from the skylight. ;-) Of course I don't, but that doesn't mean I don't have to get bundled up, go up to the fourth floor, and try to open the door to the roof deck. Which is impossible, because there's a 'storm door' on the door, and the snow makes it impossible to open it outward. So I remove the window panes from the storm door, and climb out into the waist deep snow in that part of the roof and spend the next 40 minutes up there digging out the skylight - so much for theory that the wind would sweep the roof! :-( Finally, out of wet clothes, into hot shower, back into bed - read to get drowsy - back to sleep. Out the door at 8:30 a.m. - the house was 53 f and the furnace wasn't running - to dig out the exhaust and intake for the furnace, which are about three feet above the ground on the front of the house. Then dig out front walk and a hunk of sidewalk so 14-year-old mostly blind, semi-crippled, 'Dr. Blacktape' - aka Tootsie - could walk back and forth long enough to decide to pee! So...two views - one out front door, one out back...In looking at backdoor image, keep in mind that the fence in the middle distance is 6 feet tall and is on top of a stone wall about two feet above ground level! http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW (last two images)