The eensy weensy spider...

Taking care of a big three story house means many things. Besides doing laundry for four bedrooms, making breakfast for up to 10 people, shopping for groceries, and doing the reservations and banking, we tried to help with maintenance of the property.

Herb had shown us the long metal downspout stored under the house. Bob thought it would be a nice gesture for us to re-attach the downspout on the side of the house, where a temporary rain gutter carried the water out over the cement path and dripped it onto the pineapple patch beside the house. Bob had noted that anyone walking up that path during a rainstorm got dripped on by that extension of the rain gutter.

So, with some effort, we re-attached it to the wall, following the pattern for the brackets left in the paint. Quite satisfied, we settled down for the day.

Then, it started to rain.

Our bed was up against the side wall, beside that path, and the whole wall became a sound board for the downspout. It literally roared. We didn't get much sleep that night, and the next day, we put the downspout back under the house.

So the eensy weensy spider went up the spout again...