Awe man, now we look ridiculous

A month or so ago hubby asks me to call around and find a roof rake. He is in charge of home maintenance purchases. I had never heard of a roof rake but hell, fuses scared me until 2008 so I’m not one to bet on.  I did as requested and the first two places I called were sold out.  In my mind this meant that roof rakes must be a. valuable to home maintenance efforts and b. totally common household resources and c. between their scarcity and hubby’s request we should find one immediately. I kept at it and we obtained a roof rake.

Today, another family dinner canceled due to snow, Hubby says he wants to roof rake. Now, in my mind, the roof rake was part of our on-going gutter care efforts. If you’ll recall, we replaced the gutters with the roof. And then Hubby put on gutter guards to keep the gutters from getting full of leaves. I figured we’d use the roof rake to clean off the gutters – y’know, keep the weight of the snow from damaging the gutters, keep the ice off.

No. A roof rake actually rakes a roof. And interestingly enough, the only parts of the roof that get raked are the parts you can reach from the ground. And now the roof looks absolutely ridiculous. Like a shaved cat.

I began complaining the minute we started. “The house is going to look ridiculous!” I said. A few minutes later I said it again. I said it all the way around the house. I added that I had never seen another house look like this. And that houses with snow on the roofs looked pretty.

At the end of the roof raking I said, “Why are we doing this?”

“Eh, it’s something to do,” replies he.