Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Alaskan]

I am in the cold, foggy, drizzly world too. Ho hummmmm.

I wanted to get more painting done ......well, there will be time to do it next summer

 

[chickadoodles]

I am in the cold, foggy, drizzly world too. Ho hummmmm.

I wanted to get more painting done ......well, there will be time to do it next summer

So I guess your summer is over there?

Sorry.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Wish I could get a day off for my b-day. I did get a spa day (at home from my girls when they were little) a few years ago. =D I guess that's close enough. lol

Well, for my day off I Had coffee and donuts for breakfast, came home, feed llamas and sat with chickens, went to hear my hubby speak at a luncheon, did laundry, canned jalapenos, set up a booth at the fair, took kids to church, washed chickens to enter in fair tomorrow. Is that a day off?

 

[chickisoup]

I am in the cold, foggy, drizzly world too. Ho hummmmm.

I wanted to get more painting done ......well, there will be time to do it next summer

We, or should I say honestly, DH, JUST got the painting done, yea!!!! Well, the front steps could have used a coat too and since those are in a sunny protected spot, we could still yet get those done. Since we don't get your cold, soupy fog in the fall, I'm hoping we will still have time to get some garden shutdown projects done. We have been known to have horrible Septembers and then stay fairly warm almost to Thanksgiving. I;m hoping we have one of those this year

 

[Alaskan]

Quote: Yeppers. There are a bunch of red leaves out there, and a few yellow ones starting up.

But, I shouldn't complain, since some years it gets cold and drizzly as soon as we hit August.

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WOW! Reading that made me tired!

Quote: Super fantastic that you got the painting done! (mostly

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We have gotten maybe 1/3 of all of the junk picked up. Some years I am not fast enough, and the junk gets welded frozen to the ground, and I just have to wait until spring to pick it up. (kid toys, kid clothes, garden hoses, bikes, etc. etc.)

 

[perchie.girl]

We have gotten maybe 1/3 of all of the junk picked up. Some years I am not fast enough, and the junk gets welded frozen to the ground, and I just have to wait until spring to pick it up. (kid toys, kid clothes, garden hoses, bikes, etc. etc.)

Oh Wow I never thought of that.... I imagine some of it just disappears in the ground during spring thaw too.

Were so busy strapping stuff to the ground in winter.... because thats one time of the year the wind blows so hard. I tie trash cans to Tposts or Chainlink or the car.... what ever is handy. One time when the wind was done I was hunting tarps and cans over twenty acres. Found a pile of Cans and Buckets in a ravine that I didnt know I was missing....

deb

 

[Alaskan]

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I have some of that too..... but all throughout the year. Every spring when the snow has just finished melting, but the vegetation is still all dead, we walk the property looking for and finding all sorts of things that have blown off and away.

One year, the big wind gusts pulled up a corner of our metal roof. We had to go out in the wind, crawl up on the roof, and screw it back down with giant washers before the entire thing pealed away.

As to freezing... One year I found a little boy sock and a scarf, both welded to the ground... I tried prying them off, but was worried that they would break...so there they sat until spring. Since I had had my eye on them ALL winter, I got them out before they were hidden by mud or grass.

Some years we get very little snow, and some years we get feet up on feet.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: Don't know why, but this put me in mind of a conversation (or perhaps, confrontation) that I had with a customer of our landscape maintenance business years ago. This New England transplant was blessing out one of our employees; when I walked up, she started on me. On this lovely day in April, she was furious that there were leaves in her flowerbeds. "You should have cleaned them out of there last fall!" she stated. "That would have been quite a trick, considering that they are only now falling," I replied. Sure enough, she had Live Oaks, which shed their leaves in the Spring. Her trees were peppered with yellow leaves; there were leaves falling around us with every little breeze, but she hadn't even noticed. Yankees, bless their hearts . . . .

 

[Alaskan]

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Don't know why, but this put me in mind of a conversation (or perhaps, confrontation) that I had with a customer of our landscape maintenance business years ago. This New England transplant was blessing out one of our employees; when I walked up, she started on me. On this lovely day in April, she was furious that there were leaves in her flowerbeds. "You should have cleaned them out of there last fall!" she stated. "That would have been quite a trick, considering that they are only now falling," I replied. Sure enough, she had Live Oaks, which shed their leaves in the Spring. Her trees were peppered with yellow leaves; there were leaves falling around us with every little breeze, but she hadn't even noticed. Yankees, bless their hearts . . . .

"bless their tiny little non-existent hearts!"

 

[Puddin Fluff]

"bless their tiny little non-existent hearts!"