Soggy good deed of the day

[sonia]

Actually, it was yesterday, but I didn't have the energy left over to post.

Biking home in the pouring down rain, I stopped twice at flooded intersections to clear leaf-blocked drains. It amazes me that car after car after bike after pedestrian just splashed on through. I can see how the drivers would want to stay dry, I guess. In that kind of rain, dryness was a lost cause for me.

Both times I wondered what I would use to clear it, since reaching into cold, murky water wasn't appealing. At the first one there was a nearby sturdy stick (which I left for next time) and at the second I borrowed a contractor's shovel from where he was working on a house. Doing construction in a downpour!

This evening it was blessedly dry during my whole shopping trip for groceries. I kept looking around, amazed. No rain from above, no floods below, nothing. I wore my rain gear anyway, since earlier today it was sunny one minute, wall-of-rain-with-hail the next. Glad I wasn't out then!

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[jesse_the_k]

Here's an oak twig with acorn clusters for your excellent deed of the (yester)day. I've taken to carrying a 14" hairbrush, the kind that's perfectly round: half spiky bristles, half squishy handle. It's useful for
1. Combing my hair
2. Poking elevator buttons that I can't reach forward but there's no room to turn sideways.
3. Gently batting stuff off of high shelves
4. Picking up socks
...
And I could well imagine the prickly part would do a good job nabbing the leaf clogs. Sadly I can't remember: is your hair curly?

[sonia]

Thank you! And your icon made me laugh out loud. I could have used those at the second intersection - even up on the curb the water was deeper than my boots could handle. They're still drying.

I'm not sure you'd want half-decomposed leaves and oily water in your very useful hairbrush. I love that it picks up socks. You don't even mention its usefulness for self-defense.

My hair is thick, wavy and down to my hips. It was curly last time it was short, which was when I was three years old. I have used round brushes, but they have a tendency to get disastrously wrapped up in my hair. Flat is better for me.