The Lohn Blog

Stuck on the roof

2005-06-15T12:43:00.000-07:00

Photo_061205_002, originally uploaded by alohn84.

This is a long story, but a good one....

Sunday morning, 6/12/05, I go for a run. I've got my under armor running clothes on and I get back and I talked myself into weed whipping as I was all sweaty and it needed to be done. Then, since I'm all dirty, I decide to clean my gutters.
I get my ladder and climb on to the roof with my trusty homemade gutter cleaner (a four foot broom handle with a gutter elbow screwed to it and cut open on the top). I get that all done and I grab the hose, turn it on and climb back up the ladder to really wash out the down spouts good. I do two of the downspouts and when I go to the third, the hose hits the ladder and knocks it down. I'm stuck on the roof! I can't see any other houses from my house and nobody was going to be visiting me the rest of the day - no cell phone with me either. What could I do....
I determined I could jump on to the deck approximately 7 feet down. This would risk not only my gutters and but also my ankles and with my first marathon a less than week away, I wasn't going to do that. So I grabbed the hose and lassoed a branch.
Now for the funny/embarrassing piece...I was in my good running clothes and I didn't want to risk ripping them on a sharp edge, so since I can't see any other houses from my house, I took them off and Tarzaned down in my tightie whities.
It worked out real well, right after I got down I ran in and grabbed my phone and took this photo. If things didn't work out that well, I would have had a lot of explaining to do if I would have been found unconscious and only in my underwear on the deck.

2005_0312_063555

2005-03-13T19:51:00.000-08:00

2005_0312_063555, originally uploaded by alohn84.

Quite a weekend - running, swimming and playdoh....This was the sunrise on Saturday morning,

Abbie's Birthday Party

2005-03-06T21:07:00.000-08:00

2005_0306_105309, originally uploaded by alohn84.

Abbie needed a nap before her birthday party today, but she didn't want anything to do with laying down or going for a ride to fall asleep. Instead she decided to put Barney stickers on her legs and watch a Barney video. She eventually went for a ride and fell asleep.

Testing Flicker uploads

2005-02-28T18:13:00.000-08:00

Testing Flicker uploads, originally uploaded by alohn84.

Testing Flicker photos

2005-02-27T19:17:00.000-08:00

Abbie and I went swimming today. Before we left, we had to try on her suit - she got a bit excited.

2005-02-27T19:15:00.000-08:00

Abbie and I shoveled on saturday - we put snow back on the driveway. It just worked better that way.

2005-02-27T19:13:00.000-08:00

Marti moved on Friday - Getting the couch inside was a bit of a challenge.

There may be a few test posts here

2005-02-25T07:54:00.000-08:00

I'm having issues with this blog and posting new stuff that doesn't have pictures, so there may be a few test posts today.

Added more than I thought

2005-02-23T21:45:00.000-08:00

Okay, I got carried away - I updated the photos page, but not the
naviagation button. I also updated the links page, so it's actually
very useful now. Take a look and let me know what you think - one of
my earlier tasks was to email me and auto sort all the comments from
this blog, so if you leave me a comment, I will automatically get it.

One of my things to do tommorow is to get a "Updated" or "New" label
that I can put on all the stuff I update, so people can easily see
what's new.

2/23/05

2005-02-23T19:00:00.000-08:00

Tonight I spent some time on thelohns.com and this blog in particular.
I wasn't home in time to take any cool photos of the sunset, so there
will be no photos on this entry. I'm going to finish this up quick
and then change the "Photo Album" button on the main navagation bar to
just say "Photos". Then I'm going to have a page that has links to my
favorite photos at the original sizes, so people can print them with
good resolution or set them as their background.

The biggest noticable changes on the blog are the logo and the
"Helpful Links" sidebar. Again, I've been super fired up about RSS,
so I'm giving you the feed of how to see if this blog has been
updated. Here's a link to how RSS works and how to make use of it
from HowstuffWorks.com

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/rss-feeds.htm

I use newsgator for my RSS reader, in fact it's my homepage on all my
browsers on all my computers.

2005-02-21T19:31:00.000-08:00

Here's it flying - not very good photo, but kind of cool.

2005-02-21T19:29:00.000-08:00

Here's a close up from a different angle - I watched it the entire way down the driveway and back up. Maggie and Adrian were running around underneath it - they didn't affect it though.

2005-02-21T19:28:00.000-08:00

Here's one of the owl I saw - it was by the pine trees first, then flew past the wood pile, then to this spot.

2005-02-21T19:26:00.000-08:00

Heres' another cool sunset shot - I think the first one is the money maker though.

2005-02-21T19:25:00.000-08:00

I had quite a sunset tonight. I went down the drive to get the garbage and decided to bring the camera with me. First was this sunset, which was pretty cool - then an owl as you'll see in later pics. I'm not as good of a photographer as I will be, so it was cooler in person.

2005-02-20T20:24:00.000-08:00

On Saturday Abbie and I played Playdoh - We started with green, yellow, red and blue - but now we only have green and purple. I'll get some new stuff soon.

2005-02-20T20:21:00.000-08:00

This was my drive into the club and later to broomball this morning - we go snow - I also figured out how cool it was to take pictures while driving

2005-02-18T19:00:00.000-08:00

Abbie went swinging tonight.

Opps - here's a missed post

2005-01-24T09:30:00.000-08:00

I didn't post this correctly the other day, so here it is....

After Abbie and I went sliding, we hung out at home and organized the closet
under the stairs. Then we went to the Monticello Community Center pool and
swam. She had a great time initially she only wanted to sit in the 6 inch
deep water on my lap, but by the end, she didn't want any help from me
standing in the 1/2 foot deep water. She didn't want to leave, but was
sleeping by the time we left Monticello city limits.

2005-01-22T15:49:00.000-08:00

Abbie and I went sliding today in the new snow.

2005-01-21T23:14:00.000-08:00

We got a bunch of snow today - despite the 2.5 hour drive to Teresa's and the fact that I couldn't make it into the nieghborhood, so I had to turn around and go back to Teresa's, I am kind of excited about the snow.

2005-01-21T23:11:00.000-08:00

Here's Abbie with some shade I tried to add - I'm working on adding pictures to this blog.

www.TheLohns.com is up and going

2005-01-16T19:35:00.000-08:00

I should have had a plan for this, but I've got a lot of ideas floating through my head, so I wanted to test this before I got too wrapped up in other stuff.

I've got nothing else to say at this time.

Some future enhancements to thelohns.com will include:
Blog
Web Cam - I'll test tommorow
Photos
Dad and Mom's catalog of stuff to sell
Cool Stuff - sound clips, edited pics
Spell check in this blog

I've got to sit down and come up with some sort of time line for this entire site, otherwise I will try to get everything done in a couple days and I won't get any sleep and my parenting, social life, broomball, home business and marathon training will suffer.