Snow Next Week??

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My leaves haven't even dropped with the exception of the red maple. The ginko and magnolia haven't even turned color. Might be another season where i am raking and bagging all bundled up in freeing ass cold weather rather than just crisp late autumn afternoons. Had years where I got schedule squeezed between too rain everyday and forecast for snow where I was out bagging under work light which sucked.
 
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Seeing predictions of upper 20's for Friday night. That will take some fun out of Friday night tailgating.
 

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Living that light blue life in Ohio. Amazing how much better the climate is here than in Des Moines. Just enough to take the edge off.
 

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My leaves haven't even dropped with the exception of the red maple. The ginko and magnolia haven't even turned color. Might be another season where i am raking and bagging all bundled up in freeing ass cold weather rather than just crisp late autumn afternoons. Had years where I got schedule squeezed between too rain everyday and forecast for snow where I was out bagging under work light which sucked.
You must of missed the memo that you are not suppose to rake leaves anymore
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/n...-say-you-shouldnt-rake-leaves-heres-why/59439
 

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Sweet, I've been doing this forever. Never raked, just mowed them, then let the wind blow it away.

Yeah, but you live on a yuge country estate where you can do that. ;)

My neighbors, up hill and upwind from me, have a big grove of red and white oaks that pretty much funnel down onto my small lot. I bag in spring and the fall because the oaks fall all winter. And they do not compost worth a ****, unlike silver maples leaves that crumble to dust by spring. The big black hole to the alternative oak and squirrel universe at the end of the block doesn't help. It's a portal to bushels and bushels of more oak leaves and an endless supply of squirrels. It never stops. I hate that black hole.

BTW all of the leaves picked up here do go to a composting site and not landfill. The article was just dumb for anyone who lives in a heavily wooded area. And I am not sure what kind dumb **** city/state puts leaves into a landfill like that article said.
 
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Ahhhhhh......the season of depression and alcohol abuse is back.

Seems like only 6 months ago we had a blizzard

Oh. ****. We did just have a ******* blizzard in ******* April
 

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Sweet, I've been doing this forever. Never raked, just mowed them, then let the wind blow it away.

Raking and bagging is stupid and for suckers. I blow them into the yard and murder them with my mower. They either break down by next spring or blow away.
 
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I've had nothing but fine weather (except for the storms) since I moved back to Iowa in May. I expect it to continue! As a matter of fact, I insist on it continuing! :rolleyes:
 

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Yeah, but you live on a yuge country estate where you can do that. ;)

My neighbors, up hill and upwind from me, have a big grove of red and white oaks that pretty much funnel down onto my small lot. I bag in spring and the fall because the oaks fall all winter. And they do not compost worth a ****, unlike silver maples leaves that crumble to dust by spring. The big black hole to the alternative oak and squirrel universe at the end of the block doesn't help. It's a portal to bushels and bushels of more oak leaves and an endless supply of squirrels. It never stops. I hate that black hole.

BTW all of the leaves picked up here do go to a composting site and not landfill. The article was just dumb for anyone who lives in a heavily wooded area. And I am not sure what kind dumb **** city/state puts leaves into a landfill like that article said.

Right now I have a nice layer of acorns in the back yard. Seems like the oak trees put out twice as many as last year.
 

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Right now I have a nice layer of acorns in the back yard. Seems like the oak trees put out twice as many as last year.

Hmmm, now that you mention it I don't think I have noticed it being a big mast year here. Have had some huge bumper crop years though. I think last year maybe. A steady sound of the acorns plunking on the roof and than rolling down to the gutter. Vaulted ceilings so you hear it.