FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
to clean the gutters. We have been growing broomcorn for years. I have made brooms for home use and ceremonial brooms. This morning we decided it would be a good idea to clean the gutters before the big rain hit. As we were gathering the ladder, small trowels and donning our rubber gloves my SO said: "wouldn't it be nice if we had a sturdy short handled broom to fit in the gutter to help clean it out." "Just a minute, honey" I replied. I ran to the barn where we store the seeded broomcorn (seeds removed for food for people and animals) in small bundles. I grabbed two of them, wrapped some red duc tape around each, trimmed the ends and voila! we had two new gutter brooms. They worked like a charm. It was easy to fit them in the tight and often uneven space between the shingles and the edge of the gutter and sweep the debris into piles and then get it out with either the shovel or gloved hand. I left the string that I had used to bundle them in the first place and now that we are finished, we simply rinsed them in a bucket of water and now they are hanging in the barn to dry and ready for the next job. They are not too pretty, but they work.