Tangled Branches: Cultivated
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Life is About Maintenance
I once heard Patricia Schroeder say that and the older I get the more I agree with her.
There's my maintenance work for the day. This is the only time of year I don't like living on a wooded lot.
Not all the leaves are on the ground yet, and we still have some good fall color in the backyard. Hope to do a post about that soon, or at least before the snow flies. Speaking of snow, today is the 21st anniversary of the great Veterans Day storm of 1987. I remember watching the snow fall while cross-stitching a Christmas stocking for my niece, but don't remember if the trees still had leaves. It seems to me the leaf drop happens later every year.
7 Comments:
Life does require a lot of maintenance! I don't mind the leaves on the ground, it's getting them out of the gutters...before the winter rains show up. Our leaves are often still falling in December.
Um, at least you get lots of beautiful leaf compost?;)
The leaves they keep a-fallin! I don't know how many bags I've raked up. And still they come. Like your photo.
Brenda
Gail: A dirty little secret - Tangled Branches North doesn't have gutters. We had the house resided a couple of years ago and never got around to getting the gutters installed. I'm inclined to never get around to it. So far we haven't had any trouble with the foundation and have eliminated all the trouble with clogged gutters, ice damming, etc.
In the last few years, I've still been cleaning up fallen leaves in December too. It just seems wrong to this native midwesterner to be doing it then - that task is assigned to October in my mind.
Nancy: You are so right about that! All those leaves will be shredded and returned to the woods or flower beds.
Brenda: That's not the last of them, I'm afraid. Got to get to work today and get it "finished" for now, before the rain turns them into a soggy mat.
I want to give up gutter, too! gail
Except for one strip across the veranda and steps, Entangled, our house doesn't have gutters either. I don't think they're missing - seems to be common around here.
Only a few leaves have fallen - most are still pretty green.
Maybe dislike of maintenance is why Americans like to move frequently? Sometimes it seems like there's more of a thrill in ripping and redoing a house or garden than in maintaining it.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Hmm... I can't remember what I was going to say about your leaves now, because Annie set me back a bit with her comment. I'm thinking she's right... or that, in the most extreme cases, that's why people prefer to build new rather than even rip out and redo!
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