Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 10, 2013

Ya think!

They’re my leaves… I bag or not bag as I see fit. Screw the neighbors.

Gonna’ try this on my neighbor… he can have back all the Sand, Grassy Bits and Chopped up Rubbish he blew into my yard yesterday. (spring here, no leaves, but just as much c**p)

Yard Wars™ on HGTV.

We rake/blow them to the curb and the city comes and sucks them up

Learn the ways of duct tape grasshopper!

I rake them in a pile, then vacuum them up with my leaf blower/vac combo. Then dump them in my compost barrel. Come next year I’ve got barrels full of good black humus for my garden.

One reason why most people couldn’t compost all their leaves.For the leaves we do compost, I run over the pile with my lawnmower. Leaf crumbs decompose faster.

More than once I’ve read that it’s good to chop up leaves with the lawnmower. So that’s what I do.

Leave it be, dude…..But, hey, I’m believer, …I couldn’t leave her if I tried….

I just use my lawn tractor and mulch them up with the grass.

Perhaps,because he’s such a genius as to think he could get away with his leaf blowing caper, he was also a brilliant carpenter and installed the thing backwards. It fits the personality profile.

If you have room for a tree you have room for the leaves. A pile of leaves is mostly air. Chop up with the mower and mix with grass clippings (85% water) for rapid decomposition to compost. Nobody needs more lawn than what it takes to walk around the house, plus a lawn game area. One of my neighbors has 3 acres of lawn cut as close as a carpet. If you’re afraid of snakes, get an apartment.

He just couldn’t leaf it alone….

I mulch mine and let them feed back into the soil

I currently don’t have a tree in my front yard, but my bushes do a great job of catching the neighbors leaves.

Invite the grand kids over for some cannon ball in the foyer!

We had a few acres I planted in sycamore trees. Sycamores have big leaves, up to 12 inches across or more. In the Fall, they don’t crinkle up or break apart as do other types of leaves but stay dry and intact..Usually they continued to fall after my grass cutting was done for the season, and they congregated into big drifts, moved around by the wind like herds of leaf-creatures. One day they would be hundreds of feet away from the house; then the next day they would pile up four feet against the house, blocking the door..It was so cool, as if they were directed by an intelligence as were the tumble weeds in the old Outer Limits episode, “Cry of Silence.”

The Great Leaf Blower Ninja is going to need all of that vat of coffee to get the energy to clean up the deluge.

Just occurred to me . . . really lucky for him that his dog wasn’t fertilizing all the neighbors’ yards.

The door is backwards. We’re seeing the outside of the door as if it were mounted inside: “Mail” is easily read on the slot, and the door handle is what you’d see on the outside of the house, not inside.

Enjoy the colors of fall while you can, and remember, snow season is just around the corner. Before you try this with the winter snow, ask yourself “Is my flood insurance up to date ,and what excuse would work for getting by with the damage?”

It’s just been in the last year or so that the law was passed. It’s to stop storm drains from getting clogged, but it shouldn’t take a law to replace common sense.

Years ago I was blowing leaves into the street, and then planned to rake and bag. A group of kids came up and asked if they could jump into the leaves. I told them I had no objection, but that the concrete under the leaves may make it less than a pleasurable event. They had an idea: take the leaves to their own yard, pile them on the lawn, and jump in them then.

I gave them the bags and the rake and told them to knock themselves out. For some reason, they never came back for a second load.

Pretty coloured leaves.