Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 30, 2023

Battle of the blowhards?

I just move it to the back and leave it all behind.

This is a job for pitchforks and torches.

You’re a gas powered leaf blower will last longer than his battery I’m pretty sure you will be the winner soon

“You realize of course, this means war.”

War and leaf blowers.

They should be blowing them into the street, not to each other’s lawns!

The answer is blowing in the wind.

That blows.

Blowers are NOT “put it there” tools. They’re “move it somewhere else” tools

Less violent autumn version of Norman McLaren’s stop motion 1952 classic Neighbours (it’s on YouTube)!

Leaf Blowers: The Rake’s Progress.

Dueling leaf blowers

Too much daylight. Real wars don’t wait for daylight, unless both of them are normally wide awake all through the night.

See, i am not on board with this because i don’t like listening to the power equipment people use to make their yard work easier.

They’re both waging war on the rest of the neighborhood with their infernal noise.

You should just let all leaves onto your property and into your home.

Leaf me alone.

Where I live, you bag them and it’s taken by the trash collection service

Build a wall. And have Mexico pay for it. I bet that will work.

Just use a mulching electric mower and be done with it!

They have these little personal flamethrowers available now……time to upgrade the weaponry.

there are leaf blowers that act as vacuums, they have a fairly large bag attached so you can collect them. We had one over 25 years ago in Michigan, it not only sucked the leaves into a bag, it shredded them. We put the shredded leaves on one of our gardens

Tell that to my neighbor across the street.

So, is the crisis that they are having to do their own lawns?

JUST MULCH THEM UP WITH YOUR LAWNMOWER, GREAT FOR THE SOIL…!!!

I live on a wooded lot. I literally have tons of leaves. I simply blow them back into the woods from whence they came.

Those that fall inside the fence, I blow over the fence into the woods on the other side. I replace the leaf bag with a flexible drainage pipe. It’s an “endless bag.” If I had a neighbor on the other side of the fence I am sure that this method would not be appreciated.

Blowing the leaves to the curb for the city to suck up would be impractical. I have a 280 foot long driveway and about 6 feet of curb frontage, I’d have to pile the leaves about three stories high.

if only that was the only conflict in this world

where I live the prevailing wind blows the leaves from 5 neighbor’s houses all down towards my front lawn. I’m thinking of planting a hedge

I wish Burr and Hamilton had done it this way.

You know, if we leave them laying around long enough, like a few months, they disappear all by themselves. You know, like biodegradable. Sort of “green” and all that. Maybe we could just put them around the base of the trees and call them mulch. …just a thought.

Use the lawn mower to mulch the leaves when the leaves are dry. For a thick layer of leaves mowing in a north-south, east-west pattern may be necessary. The first rain will make the mulched leaves disappear.

Google: mulching leaves with a lawn mower is good for your lawn

Most of the trees around here are pine. No problem…

wait until the first snow…

My nearest neighbor is over a hundred yards away, but I still wish they’d aim that leaf blower where the sun don’t shine.

What, exactly, was the original purpose of leaf blowers?? Blowing leaves into the street so your yard will look pristine seems one of the heights of idiotic consumerism. . .

The Time Before Light Sabers.

Plays on a constant loop with humans.

Didn’t KY Senator Rand Paul get attacked over leaves by a neighbor?

Who needs a leaf blower? I let the wind blow them into my neighbor’s yard.

:D <3

Leaf Wars! Coming to your neighborhood soon!

It’s like Congress – blowing a lot of hot air, and accomplishing nothing.

Just leaf each other alone.

Legally leaves are considered “natural products” and if leaves from trees on your property get blown onto someone else’s property (or into their gutters) it’s on them to clean it up. Of course, if that neighbor is actively moving leaves to your property (like one of mine tried) that changes the legal side of things.

Modern day jousting

What, no hearing protection? Deafinatly deafening.

Leaves go on my raised garden beds. They’re porous, so rain and snowmelt can carry nutrients down into the soil. They also help mitigate damage from freeze/thaw cycles and leave the soil in good condition for spring prep. In spring, they’re moved into the big compost pile to rot down for future soil improvement. I have about 110 sq. ft. of garden and I get about $400 worth of veggies. Woot!

They’re making enemies alright – the neighbors.

I have a townhouse, nobody above or below me but I share the walls on each side. Thankfully the rental on one side has a lady that is always out and the other side has snow birds – gone a solid 5 months of each summer but they are nice and do not make noise.

Leaf blowers: a pox on mankind.

Never did like leaf blowers.

Rakes are old tech but do a better job. Blowers can do a poor job more quickly than rakes.

If only the Israelis and Hamas used blowers instead of bombs.

As with all conflicts, it will end up in negotiation … probably a taller fence.

I had to cut down my 100 plus year old Oak tree this year, so I don’t have much of a problem now. When I did, I composted . Of course now I have a bunch of compost I really don’t have a use for. Just can’t win.

Duel of the Fools.

It happens every fall.

I bought a mulching lawnmower, which nicely chops up grass and leaves and returns it all in itty-bitty pieces to the soil. Works well for me (and we get a lot of leaves, mostly maples with the occasional sycamore, here!)

I like this! I wish all border crises were like this.

Now t his is the WW3 we can enjoy