I love trees! I really do. (2 Viewers)

[72o]

Happy beautiful fall day in New England. Nothing like raking, blowing, mowing leaves and then the wind picks up and covers everything you just did. Lol, definitely pulled out my dad voice when I yelled at the wind just now.

It is an unseasonable 78 degrees so it’s a wash I guess.

 

[EmptyPocs]

long island here (the most south part of new england )
doing the same and sweating my chips off
I should have put on shorts
so crazy!
i think it is a record high today
+ have the AC cranking in the house @68

 

[72o]

long island here (the most south part of new england )
doing the same and sweating my chips off
I should have put on shorts
so crazy!
i think it is a record high today
+ have the AC cranking in the house @68

Haha right? I started in my “yardwork jeans” but quickly grabbed the shorts. Shins are chewed up from using the trimmer and having rocks/sticks ping off the ole shin bones but worth it.

 

[timinater]

Rain yesterday… woke up to this. Welcome to Saskatchewan.

 

[glynn]

I am hosting an outdoor game tonight, two months after what I thought would be our last outdoor game for the season.

 

[Colquhoun]

Long Island here too…never did the last mow of the year in shorts and a t-shirt.
Or maybe it’s not the last mow?

 

[Sprouty]

The wind blew all my leaves into my neighbors yard. Sometimes you get lucky!

 

[EmptyPocs]

Long Island here too…never did the last mow of the year in shorts and a t-shirt.
Or maybe it’s not the last mow?

i just pulled up dandelions with flowers and seed stalks

 

[72o]

Long Island here too…never did the last mow of the year in shorts and a t-shirt.
Or maybe it’s not the last mow?

So weird huh. Half the leaves havn’t fallen yet so plan on a couple more mows probably.

 

[EmptyPocs]

Long Island here too…never did the last mow of the year in shorts and a t-shirt.
Or maybe it’s not the last mow?

i was going blow out the sprinklers
next week is going to be another hot one so it can wait

 

[Nanook]

Happy beautiful fall day in New England. Nothing like raking, blowing, mowing leaves and then the wind picks up and covers everything you just did. Lol......

We are a little ahead of you here, but I totally feel your pain. Most of the leaves are down, but not everybody has them picked up yet. I spent like 8 hrs yesterday. My lawn was perfect. Now today it is pretty windy & it looks like crap again....

Picking up leaves has to be the most unsatisfying, demoralizing job of all.

 

[EmptyPocs]

We are a little ahead of you here, but I totally feel your pain. Most of the leaves are down, but not everybody has them picked up yet. I spent like 8 hrs yesterday. My lawn was perfect. Now today it is pretty windy & it looks like crap again....

Picking up leaves has to be the most unsatisfying, demoralizing job of all.

i like it
get outdoors
do some menial labor
turn off the brain
relax
then cough out your brains all night due to mold and leaf dust

 

[ekricket]

Be glad you don’t have pine needles

 

[AlbinoDragon]

All you folks with your fancy raking and mowing and plowing. Just let it grow!





(OK, cheating a bit, taken just now outside the dorm at the observatory. This is my view out the windown while having "breakfast" in the afternoon. It sure is nice not to have to worry about any of that yard work thing, at least when I'm here.)

 

[buzzmonkey]

Figures the one day it's supposed to rain is the first day of my tourney.

 

[99%evil]

I was going to mow today for th last time, but it was so muggy and wet I decided would be better to wait another week. 78 and humid here in NH in November I'll take it! Wrapped up the shrubs in burlap then went in and finsihed tiling the spare bath (a 2 week project I told my wife 4 months ago) should be done in 2 weeks.

5:40 and dark, I hate daylight savings...

 

[Ben8257]

Happy beautiful fall day in New England. Nothing like raking, blowing, mowing leaves and then the wind picks up and covers everything you just did. Lol, definitely pulled out my dad voice when I yelled at the wind just now.

It is an unseasonable 78 degrees so it’s a wash I guess.

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Bro... we have 6.5 acres and maybe 1/2 was "kept up with" when we bought it, now @FordPickup92 and I maintain about 4 acres of woods

We get done mowing/blowing leaves and the next day it looks like this. Also we have several different breeds of trees that all drop a couple weeks apart... that is our life in the fall, along with cutting and splitting firewood!

 

[72o]

I was going to mow today for th last time, but it was so muggy and wet I decided would be better to wait another week. 78 and humid here in NH in November I'll take it! Wrapped up the shrubs in burlap then went in and finsihed tiling the spare bath (a 2 week project I told my wife 4 months ago) should be done in 2 weeks.

5:40 and dark, I hate daylight savings...

Oh that’s another thing about fall over here. Daylight savings time means less daylight for yardwork while trying to work around the Patriot’s games. Sundays have always been the day in the yard and I just can’t switch to Saturdays for some reason.

 

[72o]

Bro... we have 6.5 acres and maybe 1/2 was "kept up with" when we bought it, now @FordPickup92 and I maintain about 4 acres of woods
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We get done mowing/blowing leaves and the next day it looks like this. Also we have several different breeds of trees that all drop a couple weeks apart... that is our life in the fall, along with cutting and splitting firewood!

Hell no to taking care of 4 acres man That does look beautiful though! I could spend large chunks of my life in those woods just listening to the wind blow through the trees and the peacefulness. Great place man.

 

[Ben8257]

Hell no to taking care of 4 acres man That does look beautiful though! I could spend large chunks of my life in those woods just listening to the wind blow through the trees and the peacefulness. Great place man.

Ohh once we finally get to the river (about 1/2 mile back) that is absolutely the idea

This was all totally overgrown wilderness 3 years ago, Brie and I have been painfully clearing load after load to the dump... the river is still about another 100yds behind me there, but way up on the hill in the background is the house

Everything left of the drive used to be woods. It was a VERY overly wooded lot, not some massive house, but more than we need

But just a beautiful slice of heaven on Earth, looking down into the bottom there.

But yeah... when it is leaf season... it is a royal pain in the butt! Lol

BTW if you ever have any free time AL you are welcome anytime brother! We'll drag the fire ring down in the "holler" haha

 

[Colquhoun]

…went in and finsihed tiling the spare bath (a 2 week project I told my wife 4 months ago) should be done in 2 weeks.

This reminded me of a t-shirt I saw recently…

 

[raynmanas]

lmao that is so few leaves. do you want my trees? this is actually the first year out of 10 in this house that i have given in to pay someone to do my leaves for me. the amount i get...dear god...we have a ton of trees and we are the end of a cul-de-sac so we get everyone else's too...its just so discouraging lol. i am still waiting for them to show up for the first of 2 cleanups. i hope its soon, i can barely walk through them right now.

i normally love the fall but this 78 and humid climate change bullshit has officially put me over the edge.

 

[99%evil]

We have 12 acres, I use the Kubota to blow the leaves into the woods. F raking that shit. I need to start harvesting the hardwood, 4 fireplaces/wood stoves takes a bit o’wood. (pic is from the spring)

 

[WedgeRock]

Mulching leaves into fertilizer, eh?

 

[Ben8257]

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We have 12 acres, I use the Kubota to blow the leaves into the woods. F raking that shit. I need to start harvesting the hardwood, 4 fireplaces/wood stoves takes a bit o’wood. (pic is from the spring)

Kabota all the way brother!!

 

[bergs]

This time of year really is unreasonable from a weather perspective. It was 78 today and will get down to 52 tonight which means I’ll have to make more Paloma’s and drag myself into the hot tub again.

 

[99%evil]

Kabota all the way brother!!
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Looks like my BX23s

 

[72o]

Ohh once we finally get to the river (about 1/2 mile back) that is absolutely the idea
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This was all totally overgrown wilderness 3 years ago, Brie and I have been painfully clearing load after load to the dump... the river is still about another 100yds behind me there, but way up on the hill in the background is the house
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Everything left of the drive used to be woods. It was a VERY overly wooded lot, not some massive house, but more than we need
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But just a beautiful slice of heaven on Earth, looking down into the bottom there.

But yeah... when it is leaf season... it is a royal pain in the butt! Lol

BTW if you ever have any free time AL you are welcome anytime brother! We'll drag the fire ring down in the "holler" haha

Frickin beautiful bud! The house and the grounds. The hard work is all worth it…the sense of pride you must have in that piece of property now. Awesome!

I appreciate the invite Ben and would love to take you up on that offer someday. I’ll bring the bourbon and you provide the hammocks…or hammock if we’re really feeling it LOL.

 

[mburnznj]

NJ here, started working on my lawn today in a sweatshirt and was in a T shirt within 15 minutes. It was also in the 70s as well down here, more like spring then fall.

At least my town collects leaves at the curb so I just blow them to the street which makes it easy.

My backyard....

Be glad you don’t have pine needles

Pine trees in my backyard and I curse them to no end. I clean my gutters at least once a month.

 

[72o]

Mulching leaves into fertilizer, eh?

Yeah man…well trying to. The backyard belongs to the dog so I dont like using any kind of fertilizer back there so figured I would try mulching.