Curses! This happens every time…

Unless I can scrounge a couple of downspout elbows I’ve gone as far on the gutter as I can. Missed one bitsy detail.

Installing the gutter went smoothly enough. This one is four feet shorter than the first one I did so naturally that much easier, but also the first one taught me how it’s done.

Ended up with more of an obvious angle on it than seemed quite right to me, but it’ll work. The gutter went well but when it came to installing the downspout which should have been the easy part…

…I realized I had to come out away from the porch post at the bottom to avoid the concrete pier. The downspout has to meet the elbow of a buried 4″ sewer pipe running to the nearest ditch. And that will require two more elbows than I have. I’m going to go raid Landlady’s barn right after lunch but I’m not very optimistic.