Northern weather

[healey36]

I’m hoping this wind blows all of the leaves into my neighbors’ yard.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hope blows eternally........

[robert.]

Hope blows eternally........

And what comes around goes around. Leaves blow back or from the other neighbors’ yards

[chuck]

And what comes around goes around. Leaves blow back or from the other neighbors’ yards

Exactly! I'm still getting leaves and "branches" from some crap tree that's not in my yard or any of my immediate neighbors yards. I think it's coming from across the street behind our yard, aka the next subdivision. We have a couple of medium sized oaks that hold their leaves till the tree starts putting out new "buds" in late December/early January. Leaves are like cardboard!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

We have a couple of medium sized oaks that hold their leaves.........

I have a small red oak; small being defined as just past being able to get my arms around it. Then there's the big red oak further fro the house; maybe double the small one. Both full of leaves for at least another month. Neighbor has a pair of pin oaks that are not as old, but probably taller. I'll get all the poplar, maple, and sweetgum leaves piled, let them get rained on and then they stay put. And then it's oak leaves..........raking navigating acorns is not a bad as Legos, but.....

[chuck]

We've got mostly maples. Red maple, sugar maple, silver maple and even boxelder. Probably WAS mixed with beech, first replacements for the original native white pine that was clear cut almost 200 years ago. Land had been farmed up until about 70-100 years ago. We now have a mixture of native trees and "exotics/ornamentals" that were planted as part of landscaping projects. The most popular of those were ash trees which fell victim to the Emerald Ash Borer that entered the country on pallets from China with cheap goods that were warehoused at the old K-Mart distribution center about two and half miles away on the Canton/Plymouth Township border. Pretty little bugs, pretty destructive too.

[healey36]

Maryland DNR had a been hanging traps for the ash borers for the past few years, but I don't recall seeing any this past summer. Maybe they've given up. Don't they make wooden baseball bats out of ash? I wonder what they'll use next if the ash trees all disappear?

The wind has died down here somewhat, so it's back to raking. I thought 30 hours of rain followed by 30 hours of stiff breeze would pull down most of them, but it looks like at least half are still on the trees.

[chuck]

A deep cold snap and no wind overnight usually brings em down, and fast. The maple in the front yard between the street and sidewalk was around 35% down and then we had that snap and overnight it went to 90+% down. What a mess. Leaves ankle deep. I guess the good news is they weren't blowing around. Had to use the mower with the bag attachment to vacuum them up. Roll forward 5' and then empty, repeat, over and over.

Something like 7 bags from that one tree.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maryland DNR had a been hanging traps for the ash borers for the past few years, but I don't recall seeing any this past summer. Maybe they've given up.

Pretty pointless now - all the ash are dead.

Don't they make wooden baseball bats out of ash? I wonder what they'll use next if the ash trees all disappear?

Yes. Maple was considered; too brittle. I'm thinking hickory.........

The wind has died down here somewhat, so it's back to raking. I thought 30 hours of rain followed by 30 hours of stiff breeze would pull down most of them, but it looks like at least half are still on the trees.

Still windy here; most of all other than oak are down; oak are hanging on. Rake tomorrow and pick up downed limbs for the fireplace.

[healey36]

We're fortunate to not have to bag them here (at least not yet). This guy comes and vacuums up what we get to the curb:



Ya just gotta make sure there's no sticks, trash, tennis balls, etc. in the pile.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

We're fortunate to not have to bag them here (at least not yet). This guy comes and vacuums up what we get to the curb:

Used to have that when I lived in Falls Church city area 30 years ago. I don't bag mine - I have 2 nice wooded areas that I just rake them into, pile them up, and make leaf mulch........that I never use.

Ya just gotta make sure there's no sticks, trash, tennis balls, etc. in the pile.

Neighbor's pets and............inconvenient neighbors are acceptable?

[healey36]

Hmmm, good point. The neighbors' schnauzer went missing a couple of weeks ago.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hmmm, good point. The neighbors' schnauzer went missing a couple of weeks ago.

Anybody have their smoker fired up?

[healey36]

Not that I've noticed. My neighbors seem to have all gone wonky for these Green Egg things. Personally, I don't need a thousand dollar piece of gear to incinerate my hot dogs in.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Not that I've noticed. My neighbors seem to have all gone wonky for these Green Egg things. Personally, I don't need a thousand dollar piece of gear to incinerate my hot dogs in.

Mine are all in on the big gas grills. Never understood the point of grilling over gas. Prefer real wood charcoal with a bit of hickory chips added.