My neighbor vacuums his roof.

So the other day I was headed out the back door to dispose of a few items.  Hearing something out of place, I look to my right and behold my neighbor on the roof of his house.......vacuuming.

There are all sorts of logical reasons for him to be doing what he was doing......he's in the process of scraping the old paint off so he can apply his new color of choice (an absolutely vomitous shade of green which could only be compared to avacado/spinach puree).  This was a lower level of his roof so the scrapings from the upper levels of the house had created quite an impressive accumulation there.  Being a neighborhood of 100+-year-old homes, the odds are quite high that there is lead in them thar chips........rain was in the forecast.......if all that lead made it into the garden they would be unable to grow edibles until the soil had been replaced.

The snarky part of me knows, however, that the real reason he was vacuuming his roof was because if all those paint chips caused the yard and garden to look, shall we say, untidy (gasp!) that his Mrs. would be displeased.  And if his Mrs. isn't happy......committees and task forces will be formed and action will be taken.

None of which can diminish the chuckle I get from the fact that my neighbor vacuums his roof.