The weather in your area today...

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It was a decent weekend (cool but not really cold yet) so a good fall clean up weekend for us as well...first up on the roof cleaning the leaves out of all the valleys...



Farmer behind us has still not taken the corn off - he is way behind everyone else...



Lots of leaves have already been cleaned up over the last few weeks, but there are more waiting front and back...



That took most of Saturday, so yesterday we shuffled the garage around to store both the riding and push mowers for the winter, then moved the snow blower so it will be handy.

We had 2 large ash trees cut down this summer, and stacked them here...



Believe it or not, almost that whole pile is now in that corner of the garage along with the snow blower...



Also stacked a bit of ash that we cut down 2 years ago from out the back. Peeling off some bark you can see the damage done by the Emerald Ash Borer...it almost looks like modern art, but it's very destructive...



Anyway, doing all this now before the snow comes...I was caught out one year without enough fire wood and I'm not doing this again...



Had to use the snow blower to cut a path through the snow to the wood pile so I could use the wheel barrow to get the wood - it made getting wood about 10X more difficult than normal!
 
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One little path to your wood pile? That's nothing. The last two winters I have had to blow snow off the pond to keep from having a fish kill. The choice is to spend a cold afternoon blowing snow or several days raking and burying dead fish. Easy choice. Take old work boots, drill sheet metal screws into the soles, cut out cardboard inserts and you are good to go.
 
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One little path to your wood pile? That's nothing.

I didn't realize this thread was some kind of competition...
 
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I was not a member back then. I also lost about 8 or 9 Ash trees. Terrible bug. Down to Oak, Hickory, Walnut and ONE Elm tree. Don't see those very often.
 
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Typical Nov. day here in North Central Ohio. 50 degrees, 39 mph wind gusts and intermittent rain showers. If the wind would shift a few more points out of the South, all my leaves will end up in my neighbors yard. FYI, dry leaves are good for 250 pounds full load in the truck. Wet leaves pack better and had 680 pounds yesterday.
 
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3.30pm and daylight almost gone, torrential rain and a gale kicking off.

 
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Another glorious day here in N C Ohio. 63 degrees with 12 mph wind. Got almost every leaf swept and will load out Monday. It's good to be semi retired and working from home.
 
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69F/20C, under deep blue, cloudless skies in northeast Afghanistan...is that time of the year when snow will cap the mountains
 
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OMG just got up North London and this is what we have !!!


Whole of the UK be at a stand still 😀

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Yesterday was 42 celsius (108 fahrenheit), today is a much more pleasant 23 celsius (73 fahrenheit).
 
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I'm not ready for this
Here in Chicago
I drove back from Green Bay in this today...loads of fun!🙁
 
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40C days quick fish and home by lunch. Friendly native in the second pic
 
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Getting cold and I have a cracked heat exchanger in my furnace that is 14 months out of warranty and not in stock any where around the metro. Fireplace, bathroom heaters and portable heaters for the next week 🙁
 
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Is that a dead backpacker?

No we hadn't thrown him in yet 🤦.....
 
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28 F and feels like 18. You know what, I don't care. We are out of here tomorrow for warmer climes for a week. BTW, already have surpassed 3,000 pounds of leafs hauled out. Still more to do.
 
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And good morning from Beijing, where the pollution reading has hit "crazy bad" again