Damage In Tolland

Summertime.. summ summ summ summatime.. cuz it’s Summatime

GWDLT

Beer?

It was a lot of backbreaking effort on my part. No doubt. But it was for the board

Exactly.. as long as the money is available it makes sense to have others do the difficult chores such as leaves .. especially if you have nowhere to put them. Why on Earth anyone would rake vs blow them and create so much more work I will never understand. And then if you also have to bag them? Spend a couple hundred bucks and either get a blower of have a landscaper come do fall cleanup. To each their own of course, but dropping a few Hundy on a blower more than pays for itself in one season. Time is money.

Beer

Warmest Oct on record . Continues right into November

Do not agree

As we get older. People cannot underestimate how much that time means. As the kids get active and your weekends are dedicated entirely to their sporting activities.. there’s not enough time to spend raking, blowing, etc. So you are willing to spend money to have it done for you.

Torch!! Amplifying pattern across CONUS for Thursday and Friday (at least), with ridge aloft with +2 sigma height anomalies across most of the eastern US and southwest sfc winds. Fairly active center of the country with a deep trough aloft, with a likely slow-evolving cold front moving through the MS Valley and western OH Valley. 850 mb temps vary slightly across models but aren`t any cooler than +12C. These forecast ideas fairly well agreed upon across most models. Main story in this period is an overall dry weather pattern with above to even well-above normal temps. Expecting highs to run in the mid to upper 70s for most (cooler near the coast). It is lower probability but not out of the question a few sites could approach 80 degrees by Friday! MEX-based temps are some 12-15 degrees warmer than mid-October climatology. That`s pretty telling since MEX MOS guidance tends to bias/trend towards climo in the extended range. Next chance for rain looks to be around next weekend. Uncertainty in timing but the amped-up mid-level pattern would favor a slower outcome than a progressive one. While details aren`t clear, indications are that it could be a fairly significant frontal passage when it does clear through SNE, given synoptic scale indications of strong height falls and SSW subtropical feed of moisture.

You should blow them to the curb and hire someone with one of those leaf vacuums . Lots of landscapers do that

Sun and blue skies breaking out . Wheeeee

75-80 all week

Yup. Once a week until done. Sometimes twice

We pump

I stand corrected. I always thought they harmed it. With an Oak forest here blowing is the only option

Which pile is bigger after raking.. the leaves or the dog poop?

Silent Acidity?

Time to spend the money on a blower. You’ll get half your life back

Beer?

Nah, I’ve had a snowblower for 2 years now. This job doesn’t allow me the time to shovel . I actually don’t miss it

All that acidity is awful for the soil and ph. Never, ever do that. Unless you want a weed lawn…

How is that any different than a lawnmower and a snowblower. Unless you have one of those manual push mower with the blades that chops up the grass that they used in the 50’s.

Most of us know

They are an absolute blessing . I can’t remember the last person I saw anywhere raking their lawn lol. I mean think about it.. A 16 pronged plastic rake piling up hundreds of thousands of leaves.. wet .. sticks and acorns gumming it up . Drop the $400 and get a blower