Leaves

[w2amr]

This year I decided to keep the leaf blower in the shed, and get the leaves up the hard way, with a rake and tarp. I did a little each day and finished in a week. It's a great cardio work out. I didn't do it alone, Dennis was there to lend moral support, and take a ride on the tarp.

[PA5COR]

Good excercise.
That is how i do it too, broom, tarp to collect on, and put in the bin.
With just 60 x 25 feet it is not much of an excercze but better as nothing ;)

[WØTKX]

Looks like lotsa oak trees... :)

[N8YX]

We have two big oaks in our front hard and a maple at the corner of the driveway. A couple good rains and the first big snowfall of the season brought those leaves down RFN. The severe storms of a couple weeks ago blew most of them to elsewhere in the neighborhood.

Speaking of...it sure did go from "nice" to "winter" seemingly overnight. There are usually several days in late November where the temps get back into the 60s. Not this time.

[n2ize]

In the old days we always cleaned leaves with a rake and a shovel. I remember countless fall afternoons raking and raking. That's why i love the leaf blower :) Of course if you live in a rural area there is no leaf cleaning. they just fall and the wind cleans them for you by blowing them into the woods.

[n2ize]

We have two big oaks in our front hard and a maple at the corner of the driveway. A couple good rains and the first big snowfall of the season brought those leaves down RFN. The severe storms of a couple weeks ago blew most of them to elsewhere in the neighborhood.

Speaking of...it sure did go from "nice" to "winter" seemingly overnight. There are usually several days in late November where the temps get back into the 60s. Not this time.

by January we'll be seeing warm temps in the 70's. Then come spring it will want to be winter again.

[WX7P]

This year I decided to keep the leaf blower in the shed, and get the leaves up the hard way, with a rake and tarp. I did a little each day and finished in a week. It's a great cardio work out. I didn't do it alone, Dennis was there to lend moral support, and take a ride on the tarp.

Dennis is being VERY helpful. He's a big beautiful guy!

[K7SGJ]

I spent 4 hours trying to rake up leaves, and discovered, cactus 'aint got any. Who Gnu?

[KG4CGC]

Dennis is a pretty boy. I'm glad to see him helping.

[NQ6U]

Cats are always a big help with household chores. Mine likes to assist in changing the bed linens by laying down right in the middle of it when I go to put the sheets on. One time I just went right ahead and made the bed as if she wasn't there. Oddly enough, not only did she stay in place through the whole process, she seemed to enjoy it and didn't want to get out from beneath the sheets for some time afterwards.

[kb2vxa]

Once upon a time we'd rake leaves into the gutter and burn them, one of the signs of autumn was the smell of burning leaves. As always we kids would have fun playing in the piles beforehand, as always getting somebody pissed off at having to rake them together again. Then some numskull passed a law against it so we had to bag them and the trash collectors picked them up. Now around here people blow them into the gutter and the town picks them up with a front end loader equipped with a claw arm of sorts that dumps them into a garbage truck.

"This year I decided to keep the leaf blower in the shed..."
Good for you, I HATE those damn things, they make the devil's own noise! When the Mexican Lawn Brigade gets three or four of those things going I can't hear myself think and conversation outdoors becomes impossible. Time to call it quits whatever I'm doing and come indoors where the infernal racket can barely be heard. Dennis is a cool cat, all he needs is a pair of shades. He's thinking he'd rather have you and the tarp always handy, sure beats walking when he'd rather be sleeping. He looks halfway there already.

And the town is alive with the sound of leaf blowers... And I started jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and he started jumping up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the Sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Dr. Strangecat or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Catnip

[WØTKX]

Dr Strange-cat looks like my first long term kitty, "Raul".

He was a cwazy kat Russian Blue who liked to fetch, and play other rowdy games.

Lived to the ripe old age of 17+8 months, happy and active till the lat 6 weeks.

Intestinal cancer got 'em. Milhous the current kitty is a wonderful dude as well.

[KG4CGC]

Cats are always a big help with household chores. Mine likes to assist in changing the bed linens by laying down right in the middle of it when I go to put the sheets on. One time I just went right ahead and made the bed as if she wasn't there. Oddly enough, not only did she stay in place through the whole process, she seemed to enjoy it and didn't want to get out from beneath the sheets for some time afterwards.
Amber helps with unloading groceries, putting away silverware, making coffee and taking out the trash. On her own she tells the other cats what to do, keeps delivery people away and or gives warning that they are in the yard, gives the other cats sleeping assignments and sets the feeding schedule.

[WØTKX]

Milhous gets annoyed when the automatic water feeder changes it's "note" when it gets low.

Running water is his favorite "toy". The solar powered fountain in the pond fascinates him.

He washes prey and his front paws like a raccoon when he catches something. :lol:

Maine Coons are hilarious.

[HUGH]

"This year I decided to keep the leaf blower in the shed..."
Good for you, I HATE those damn things, they make the devil's own noise! When the Mexican Lawn Brigade gets three or four of those things going I can't hear myself think and conversation outdoors becomes impossible.

They have to be the noisiest 2-strokes available, pretty pointless when the wind is blowing, leaves end up where they started.

As for disposing, I don't burn them or bin them, I mix them with grass cuttings and household vegetable waste on a "compost" heap and in a year it provides an excellent organic material to enrich the garden soil. The lawn mower is tipped directly onto the heap, and piles of leaves picked up with those plastic snow clearing hand attachments.

[kb2vxa]

"He was a cwazy kat..."

[N2NH]

Tracey used to help with the wash. As soon as it came home from the laundromat, she'd lay on top of the warm heap and make sure it met with kitty approval.

[w2amr]

"This year I decided to keep the leaf blower in the shed..."
Good for you, I HATE those damn things, they make the devil's own noise! When the Mexican Lawn Brigade gets three or four of those things going I can't hear myself think and conversation outdoors becomes impossible.

They have to be the noisiest 2-strokes available, pretty pointless when the wind is blowing, leaves end up where they started.

As for disposing, I don't burn them or bin them, I mix them with grass cuttings and household vegetable waste on a "compost" heap and in a year it provides an excellent organic material to enrich the garden soil. The lawn mower is tipped directly onto the heap, and piles of leaves picked up with those plastic snow clearing hand attachments.
Actually our leaf blower is electric. But it is pain in the ass dragging that 75' extension cord around the yard.

[N7YA]

Bibi says "....fuggit"


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[n2ize]

Actually our leaf blower is electric. But it is pain in the ass dragging that 75' extension cord around the yard.

I have an electric and a gas blower. The electric one actually does a better job than the gas one so we use it when there are a heavy amount of leaves. Otherwise the gas is more convenient. I really should get one of those 4 cycle gas blowers that you strap to your back. I have too many bad memories of childhood days spent raking leaves and shoveling mountains of snow wishing I had a leaf blower or a snow thrower. Now that I have both a leaf and snow blower it's like a dream come true.

[kb2vxa]

"I really should get one of those 4 cycle gas blowers that you strap to your back."

FYI those are used by the above mentioned Mexican Lawn Brigade. Blowing gas isn't so noisy, if anyone, I should know.

[w2amr]

Bibi says "....fuggit"


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Cute Tortie.

[w2amr]

I have an electric and a gas blower. The electric one actually does a better job than the gas one so we use it when there are a heavy amount of leaves. Otherwise the gas is more convenient. I really should get one of those 4 cycle gas blowers that you strap to your back. I have too many bad memories of childhood days spent raking leaves and shoveling mountains of snow wishing I had a leaf blower or a snow thrower. Now that I have both a leaf and snow blower it's like a dream come true.See that , you're getting soft in you old age.:mrgreen:

[N7YA]

Cute Tortie.


Shes our chunky feral rescue. Weird but gentle.

[kb2vxa]

"See that , you're getting soft in you old age."
Viagra will fix that.

[n2ize]

See that , you're getting soft in you old age.:mrgreen:

Yes.... If I was really rough I'd pick each of those leaves up by hand :mrgreen:. Actually I like the rural method of leaf cleanup better. My brother lives upstate a ways and nobody cleans leaves up there. No need to. The wind just blows them off into the surrounding woods. Occasionally he may take out the leaf blower to clear off accumulated dirt, grass clipping, grit, etc. but up there the leaves are not much of a problem. However snow is another story. he has a tractor and a plow and a large snow thrower for that..

[PA5COR]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/446430/SNOW-WARNING-Arctic-storm-will-blast-Britain-with-90mph-gales-and-crippling-blizzards

That is what is heading our way too.
Looks like i don't have to clean up anyway, that 90 mile an hour wind will take care of that...

[kb2vxa]

I wonder how the BBC could have missed that. http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/

[K7SGJ]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/446430/SNOW-WARNING-Arctic-storm-will-blast-Britain-with-90mph-gales-and-crippling-blizzards

That is what is heading our way too.
Looks like i don't have to clean up anyway, that 90 mile an hour wind will take care of that...

Sooooooooooooooooo we can look forward to YOUR leaves in OUR yards?

[PA5COR]

Unlikely southwest to northwest gale, dumping it into the Germans garden i hope ;)
BBC has it on that page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/25201359 warning for snow and gales.




Sooooooooooooooooo we can look forward to YOUR leaves in OUR yards?

[kb2vxa]

It looks like a video taken from a TV broadcast, nothing, not even a hint on the page I linked to. As for the leaves, better in GM1JWC Glen's compost in Edinburgh. He's an e-pen pal, I check that page when he complains about the weather. (;->)