Who else will be raking leaves today? - Democratic Underground

sbj405

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Sun Oct-29-06 08:57 AM
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Who else will be raking leaves today?

I'm going to try and make a dent in what's fallen. At least the sun is out for a change.

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Suich

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Sun Oct-29-06 12:37 PM
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1. Not me...it's raining!

:hi:

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Haole Girl

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Sun Oct-29-06 12:49 PM
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2. Have fun!

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elocs

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Sun Oct-29-06 12:55 PM
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3. The leaves here are long gone. n/t

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ScreamingMeemie

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Sun Oct-29-06 01:36 PM
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7. Where 'bouts are you located? I just got off the phone with a cousin

in West Bend. They spent all yesterday raking and he said the ground is covered again today... with more coming down. :hi:

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elocs

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Sun Oct-29-06 06:44 PM
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13. La Crosse on the Mississippi, east of Rochester, MN.

Now with no leaves on the trees and back on standard time when it is dark at 5 p.m., winter is on the horizon. November here is a depressing month--gloomy, cloudy, raining, and 38 degrees.

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OllieLotte

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Sun Oct-29-06 07:16 PM
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16. LaCrosse is a wonderful city.

I grew up there.

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elocs

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Sun Oct-29-06 07:55 PM
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19. Small world, me too. Graduated from Central in 1970. n/t

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ScreamingMeemie

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Sun Oct-29-06 08:06 PM
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22. My mother was born and raised in LaCrosse and its surrounding

areas. She went to high school in Onalaska. My grandfather was born on French Island and my grandmother in Ettrick. :hi:

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elocs

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Sun Oct-29-06 08:11 PM
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23. French Island is just across the river from me

and in the early spring I can go out my front door and see a dozen bald eagles sitting out on the ice. I am on the northside of town and so I am just a few miles from Onalaska. When I was a kid, Onalaska was just a hole in the wall town of a few thousand people and now it is over 15,000.

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OllieLotte

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Sun Oct-29-06 08:27 PM
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24. Bald Eagles?

When I was growing up in LaX (1960-1980) the only place you could see bald eagles was near the fish hatchery at Genoa. When I went home one winter 3-4 years ago we were driving north toward Lake Pepin? and saw 15 or more along the way. Quite a comeback for that magnificent bird.

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elocs

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Sun Oct-29-06 09:25 PM
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26. They sit by holes in the ice waiting for fish.

I one time counted over 30 of them in different places. What is funny is that there are also gulls sitting on the ice away from the bald eagles and they are very nervous, always looking over their shoulders. Evey once in awhile one of the eagles will buzz the gulls and the gulls will all fly away, only to return moments later.

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ScreamingMeemie

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Sun Oct-29-06 08:31 PM
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25. When my mom went to school there (1959) it was just a small

farming community. Small world, eh?

When she was a little girl,living in LaCrosse, she was in the first recorded school bus accident in the state. We still stop in the candy store everytime we visit..that hasn't changed at all.

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elocs

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Sun Oct-29-06 09:28 PM
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27. I am guessing it must be the Sweet Shop on the northside

or maybe Rannisons on the southside since they are the only old candy stores left here.

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Reverend_Smitty

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Sun Oct-29-06 01:08 PM
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4. It's way too windy to rake leaves here

I think it would be damn near impossible to make a pile so instead I shall stay inside where it is warm and watch the Giants...such a sacrifice :P

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av8rdave

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Sun Oct-29-06 01:20 PM
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5. Just got done!

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Nicole

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Sun Oct-29-06 01:30 PM
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6. Yes & no

I got rid of the leaves this morning but I didn't rake them. I mowed them so the bagger would pick them up.

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Canadian Socialist

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Sun Oct-29-06 01:37 PM
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8. I don't need to rake the leaves...

cause they're all covered by the freakin' SNOW! I hate winter.

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u4ic

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Sun Oct-29-06 09:31 PM
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28. You got it, too?

We have leaves on top of the snow...it was quite windy today, and the leaves were blown off the trees. Interestingly enough, some of them were still green...:shrug:

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Neoma

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Sun Oct-29-06 01:42 PM
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9. Not me..

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libnnc

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Sun Oct-29-06 01:47 PM
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10. too windy here and we gave up that fight a long time ago

We usually wait until they've all fallen before we get the blower or rakes out. We're surrounded by trees (big sycamores, maples and poplars mostly). It's a nightmare.

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shanti

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Sun Oct-29-06 01:47 PM
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11. did that yesterday

Edited on Sun Oct-29-06 01:59 PM by shanti

we had a big one-day windstorm last week here in sactown. i live on a long street with lots of mature trees, although my postage stamp front yard only has a small, young tree. for some reason, i think it's how my yard slopes, i get every damn leaf from the neighborhood during winds! i usually blow them into the street, then rake and put in the container, but no room now.

have fun!

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querelle

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Sun Oct-29-06 02:04 PM
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12. Not me.......

I pay to have my condo corporation do that for me. If only they would stop cutting grass on Sunday mornings...........

Q

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elocs

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Sun Oct-29-06 08:00 PM
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20. I work 3rd shift,

the one thing I look forward to the growing season ending is that the little old ladies around me stop mowing their grass 3 times a week and then out with the weed eaters that sound like a dentist drill.

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femmocrat

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Sun Oct-29-06 06:50 PM
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14. We had gale force winds... blew all the leaves across the street

into the fussy neighbor's yard! hahahahaha

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caty

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Sun Oct-29-06 06:51 PM
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15. I don't believe in raking leaves.

You are messing with nature. The leaves are supposed to rot and add nutrients to the soil.

Or, if you are religious--God knocked them off the trees for a reason. Don't mess with God's plan.

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OllieLotte

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Sun Oct-29-06 07:20 PM
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17. I agree, but leaves will kill the grass.

I use my lawnmower and mulch the leaves.

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elocs

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Sun Oct-29-06 08:06 PM
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21. I rake mine because it is in the rules, otherwise I would not.

Years ago I worked for our park department and there were many parks where the fallen leaves were left on the ground and the grass grew just fine the next season. Although it was not perfect golf course grass, it was natural and did not require all of the chemicals to make it grow which would end up in our rivers and groundwater.

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BrotherBuzz

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Sun Oct-29-06 07:32 PM
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18. I harvested my leaves yesterday

I ground and composted them, too. Today the pile is cooking at over 142 degrees.

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