I'm going to go out on a limb here and say... Jesus.

If you looked at that picture and thought to yourself, "What in the hell is that?" you're lucky, because I am going to tell you. That is a gigantic (256 pound) block of ice shaped like our trash can.

The "before" picture would have looked a whole lot like a 32-gallon trash can filled to the brim with water*, if I had taken it, but I did not. Because a 32-gallon trash can filled to the brim with water is not exactly an everyday thing, but it's nothing to blog about.

A gigantic block of ice shaped like our trash can, though. Well.


*water that had run off our roof in the course of about eight hours and that would currently be hanging out in our vents - the vents beneath our house that are there, ideally, to carry warm air around to the other parts of the house - had someone (it was me) not stuck it under where the water was overflowing the gutter