being irresponsible

This is what irresponsible people do when they should be de-damming their house. We unfortunately have a little ice dam situation happening over our front door. It’s all because of one simple little thing—leaves in the gutter. Back in the fall, we noticed leaves piling up, but we did that lazy procrastinating thing. We didn’t want to do it, so we waited so long that we couldn’t do it anymore. Now, the leaves are frozen in a few inches of solid ice, and the melting snow on the roof has nowhere to go; thus, it freezes on the roof and creates—you guessed it, an ice dam. My dad pointed out that hacking at our roof with an axe was a bad idea (Oh, really?), so he suggested a little rock salt. I didn’t think that sounded like a whole lot of fun either, so we went cross country skiing instead.

On the subject of skiing, could someone explain to Matt that you are lost if you don’t know how to get where you want to go? We took a wrong turn on the trail, crossed under a highway, went by a few lakes, and he still maintained that we were not lost because he knew exactly where we were. For someone that knew where we were, he sure couldn’t find the chalet…