Just spent a couple hours digging pine needles and muck out of the gutters <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/sick.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":sick:" border="0" alt="sick.gif" /> <br /><br />Finished the back, where I use the twenty foot ladder.  I still need to do the front, but I&#39;m hoping my son can handle that.  We have a really tall mature ponderosa right next to the house that&#39;s the culprit. But it&#39;s too nice a tree to try to cut it back.