I wanna make my own gutter cleaner...PROJECT DONE

Ok folks, I have a hard time paying folks for things I can do myself, but I need my gutters cleaned.
I ain't going up on a ladder, as a few years back we have a good friend our age (late 30's) take a spill off one, and is now confined to a wheelchair.....so, needless to say I am not allowed up on a ladder.
Anyway, our house is surrounded by pine trees, and I always get a pileup of pine needles at each of the four drops where the gutter attaches to the downspout......just trying to get someone to come out to the house seems to be a problem, and can never count on the person to show.
Anyway, at each downspout upstairs, I have a window in each corner of the house. I have tried cleaning them with the curved water thing on the end of a house, but have well water and the pressure isn't too good....just seems to make a big mess. (2 story house)
Here is my idea....welcome to laugh...thinking of buying some pvc pipe ...maybe an 8 foot section, and place a curved piece on the end shaped like a U. Anyway, I was then going to attach the pvc wand to my shop vac, and then suck out what pine needles are on each end...I don't get any leaves, and the pine needles are usually always dry.....what ever leaves dont get sucked up in the vacuum...perhaps I reattach the vac house to the output and blow the rest of them out.

Only item I am not sure about is...if it will work? And if so, should I go with a smaller diameter pvc that attaches to the house to create most suction/blowing force? Was thinking they might have a pvc pipe reducer that would allow me to put a smaller diamter pipe on?

Thanks for the info folks.
For those folks that just say climb the damn ladder....I hear you...but I may not have explained the setup too well.
At the front of the house, there is a steep slope from house to where the ladder would be on the ground...probably another 3/4 of a story or so....in addition to this, the foundation is showing about 6 feet before the window starts, so the first story is high enough that you could not even peek inthe first floor window... so if I did get a ladder, it would probably need to be a 40 footer, and I'm thinking that is going to run big bucks.....also, I would climb the ladder, but I also have a significant other that I live with and provided me three beautiful kids, so that is the major reason I am not getting on the ladder.....not really my choice, but thats the deal you make after being married for a while...compromises, right (If our friend was not in a wheelchair, it might be a different story)
Thanks for the tips and ideas...I'll be schlepping down to the store over the next few days and will post how I made out.
Thanks.

Well, picked up some 2" waste pvc pipe and some elbows and couplers....spent about $20 on all the stuff.
Assembled, and attached to my shop vac.....was a little clumsy working it, but it did a good job. Ran it on suck mode first and sucked up all the pine needles near each drop.....then, ran the blower on each end to get the little stuff out. Good thing is my house gets full sun, and I have no leaves....just pine needles......this project probably wouldn't work too well with heavy/wet leaves unless you had a more powerful vac....but for $20 duckets, I'm pretty happy with it, and can do it 3-4 times a year now.
Thanks for the ideas folks