Texas

[Matejka]

Needed some bedding for coop run. So I raked leaves. Can't tell it, but I did, I promise. Raking gives me time to think, which "can" be dangerous.
Based on your opinions, what is the easiest way to transport leaves? Wheelbarrow, trash bags, cart, wagon, truckbed?

 

[electrycmonk]

I will share. Bring a big bucket.
Cloudy today. thunderstorms forecast all weekend..
Dogs beating the yard into a mudhole from earlier 5 inches +.
I've got to mop again. Time to change the mud. Can't stand old mud in the house.

All of our downstairs is tile. Mud is a reality here too....alas washing rugs and dog blankets is far easier then carpeting these days...

 

[electrycmonk]

So I just blamed my wife for fart dusting me. Nope it was just her just our old dog. God she gets horrid gas from grazing on chicken poop. The timing was just suspect. The dog can be 1 meter away and offend you. With doors and windows open as well. It is still 74.3 outside. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KTXSANBE6

I give our pups plain yogurt. A dollup 'ill do ya.... These days that chicken poo fetish is a non-offensive odor when they fart.

 

[electrycmonk]

Needed some bedding for coop run. So I raked leaves. Can't tell it, but I did, I promise. Raking gives me time to think, which "can" be dangerous.
Based on your opinions, what is the easiest way to transport leaves? Wheelbarrow, trash bags, cart, wagon, truckbed?

Oh that depends.
Distance to have the leaves travel.
Quantity of leaves to move.
Wind speed and direction.....

 

[electrycmonk]

I was told years ago (don't know if it's true) that grapefruit inthe stores is rotten, that's why it's sour. That a ripe grapefruit is a light green and sweet. Enlighten me....is this true?

I grew up enjoying grapefruit two ways.
Gramma Diamonds "secret way"... And the orange peel route...

All of them involved a sweet/sour-ish combo of flavor.... Sour like a hint of lime.

 

[Matejka]

Far enough away that they cannot find their way home.
More than I want too move and their family keep dropping by.
Far enough that wind doesn't herd them back home.
These I am hauling to coop. About 400 feet.

 

[Matejka]

Gramma Diamonds "secret way"... And the orange peel route...
Never heard either way.

 

[electrycmonk]

It is so amazing what oranges look down here. They are not a chemically enhanced color. Mostly they are green and orange tinged. This thought got me off my pillow. We get them fresh down here wife made a nice pineapple, orange, banana, and mango with chia seed seed smoothie today. They just are not walmart oranges. As compared to Valley oranges.

The skin color is so disceaving(sp) depending on the species these days....
I normally go off of the smell and ease of peeling & how the skin seperated from the fruit.

 

[electrycmonk]

Gramma Diamonds "secret way"... And the orange peel route...
Never heard either way.

Gramma is the restaurant method. They cut it in half and use the special narrow spoon with teeth and it scoops out each 1/2 of slice from inside the skin and she always sprinkled a dash of sugar across the top of it ... Even if it was sweet enough by itself....

The orange peel method is peeling it like an orange. Either trying to have all the peel stay as one piece once the skin is removed or just "get it off quick" and then usually stick a finger or thumb into the end and sprit it apart - carefully as to no have it squirt ya with a laser shot of juice in the eye!

 

[RUNuts]

Needed some bedding for coop run. So I raked leaves. Can't tell it, but I did, I promise. Raking gives me time to think, which "can" be dangerous.
Based on your opinions, what is the easiest way to transport leaves? Wheelbarrow, trash bags, cart, wagon, truckbed?

How far are you transporting the leaves?

Get a tarp - as big as you want to mess with.
Rake all the leaves onto the tarp.
Fold tarp up and drag into the run.
That way you don't have to pick up the leaves twice and I don't like shoving into a bag, dragging and dumping if I don't have to. The leaf bags rip so easy when dragging.

I fill old feed bags - dog and chicken - with wood chips at the dump. Load them, drive home and then wheelbarrow the bags to the coop & garden beds.

If not very far, I would fill a garbage can before messing with big black bags. Increases the load volume of the wheelbarrow. Dragging a can or a wheelbarrow will be easier than futzing with bags that won't stay open.