Morning Cup Of Coffee And Weather

[Sweeney]

Added 507 miles this weekend, and 7 nights. Nothing terribly exciting, I went to Potato Creek (again it seems!) and spent a few days while taking training in Elkhart. Picked up some really good infomration while I was there. Then, met a couple of friends in Charlestown State park spending 3 nights there.

If you don't know, Charlestown is near Louisville and Potato Creek is in South bend --- so quite literally I drove from the center of the state north, then to the southern part, then back --- crossing the state twice. Some long hours driving there!

I rally need to fix it so I can post photos!

 

[dustinp]

Most the leaves are down in our neck of the woods, so making some use of Ecoflow power station to power my corded blower and clear them off the 1/4 mile driveway before they get matted down. Got to keep the snowblower happy!

 

[Sweeney]

Most the leaves are down in our neck of the woods, so making some use of Ecoflow power station to power my corded blower and clear them off the 1/4 mile driveway before they get matted down. Got to keep the snowblower happy!

That is an endless battle! We've still got about 80% green I would estimate -- but 20% down, with a bit of color -- I think we're a little "behind" as the days were in the 80s just two weeks ago.

We've had a few days of much needed rain, and cool temperatures. I'm hoping it dries up enough to mow the leaves on the ground and blow off my driveway (not necessarily in that order) this weekend, I don't bother raking -- with a large suburban yard with many mature trees on my lot, and next to me -- its not worth the the work.

Without going into a lot of detail, I'll be somewhat busy and unavailable in the next 2-4 months and won't have much time to do this, or much else. Well, I hope anyway.

I want to make sure as much of this homeowner stuff is done before then. But it isn't likely.

 

[dustinp]

That is an endless battle! We've still got about 80% green I would estimate -- but 20% down, with a bit of color -- I think we're a little "behind" as the days were in the 80s just two weeks ago.

We've had a few days of much needed rain, and cool temperatures. I'm hoping it dries up enough to mow the leaves on the ground and blow off my driveway (not necessarily in that order) this weekend, I don't bother raking -- with a large suburban yard with many mature trees on my lot, and next to me -- its not worth the the work.

Without going into a lot of detail, I'll be somewhat busy and unavailable in the next 2-4 months and won't have much time to do this, or much else. Well, I hope anyway.

I want to make sure as much of this homeowner stuff is done before then. But it isn't likely.

Yes, an endless battle to be sure. I was hoping to get some of the forecasted rain after blowing them into the woods so they would get somewhat matted in place, and minimize their blow back into the lawn and drive, but twice now that has not worked, maybe three times will be the charm.

Our color was a bit later than usual this year too, and then seemed to go very quickly from green to brown, and then down.

My shoulders said goodbye to the rake some time ago, an unfortunate part of the aging process, and even the blower will have some ibuprofen worthy side effects, but it's the lesser of the two evils. The southwestern migration is not far off, and the fall work needs to get done.