Alright HJ, I got something for you here. This is a true story, lol. I put this under jokes only because it is funny. Nothing has been exaggerated, it is without a doubt as it happened.
I decided to clean out the gutters. I noticed while pulling into the driveway that something was already, cleaning them out for me. Especially, under the eve part. Now, I saw raccoons scamper up there, one is playing havoc with my chimney, but, that will be next. For now, it was the gutters.
I have a neighbor, who is aged. She is about 89, maybe, 86, and was once a paramedic so, she hates it, just hates it, when I climb up to clean the ice or snow, or the gutters. And, being she is always watching I am always caught. So, I decided to just reach out the window on the front one and give her a break. Calm her nerves.
I started to open the window and lo and behold there was a squirrel cleaning it out. I knocked on the glass, telling him or her, although he was doing a good job, I would finish. He scampered to the other side of the awning. I reached out with a long 6 ft pole with a brush on the end and started to brush the gutter, flipping some of the debris over the gutter onto the awning. Then, there was some kind of a clog. Pulling the pole back to me, I took the brush off the end, and stuck it into the clog mess and pulled, out, Hj... a baby squirrel! I had a stick with a baby squirrel on the end. He wrapped his little arms and legs around it. He was screaming, the mom was screaming, and, I was screaming. I didn't expect that. I gently, put the baby down, pulled my pole inside and shut the window.
Boy, he was a cutie.