On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:52:16 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:47:02 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

25 above here this morning. Glad I got the boat finished last night. Next week it's gonna be down in the teens. I'm not ready for this,

I had to put a shirt on the other morning to walk Ed Brrr

Just finished getting the latest batch of leaves up. Now mom nature
can do whatever she wants for the next few days.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:12:43 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Thursday, November 13, 2014 10:07:54 AM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:42:07 -0600, Califbill
wrote:

Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:01:55 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 2:08:34 PM UTC-5, Tim wrote:
Starter froze up at -30? I can appreciate that...

I was guessing that the battery froze. You're right, may have been the
starter. One thing was for sure, it was not a happy car. Neither was I!

We had a "pot luck" Thanksgiving lunch today at work. Our Commons area
has seating both inside and out. We filled the outdoor tables; it was
77 degrees here today. It's supposed to be 29 degrees Saturday morning. Damn vortex.

Played golf today. Temp in the mid-60's, sunny, bit windy, but
gorgeous day.

Now no more golf for six weeks. That sucks!

Tooth implant this morning. So sitting in my family room, wood stove
going. Supposed to rain today and tomorrow. Nice out now, sunny and cold
65.

Today we're 20 degrees cooler. Have to blow leaves. Hate that job.

I bought the equivalent model of one of these three years ago.

http://www.redmax.com/products/blowers/ebz8500/

Make the job relatively wuick and painless. However, I have over 2 acres, and most of it is covered with huge red oak trees. Lots of leaves! That model is overkill for a "normal" lot.

This is mine. I love it.

http://www.echo-usa.com/Products/Blowers/PB-755ST

Even though I've got only 1/3 acre. Ten oaks, all over 1 1/2 ft
diameter, a couple maples, few othes. Lots of leaves. PITA.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:27:30 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

Leaves? IMO where they land is where they stay.

Wish I could. They'd kill the grass I work so hard to keep nice.

On 11/13/2014 3:19 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:27:30 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

Leaves? IMO where they land is where they stay.

Wish I could. They'd kill the grass I work so hard to keep nice.


Yeah, me too. I am not a nut about my grass like some but I know because
I am built on a grade, I need the grass to keep a healthy environment
around the home and not wash all my topsoil out..

One of my neighbors gets out his Dixon zero turn and mows his lawn one last time. Only he mows circling backwards and while chopping themup, blows the leaves onto a pile then mows the pile munching them even more. Then repeats the process three or four times and it's over.

Leaves just sorta disappear.

On 11/13/2014 3:54 PM, Tim wrote:
One of my neighbors gets out his Dixon zero turn and mows his lawn one last time. Only he mows circling backwards and while chopping themup, blows the leaves onto a pile then mows the pile munching them even more. Then repeats the process three or four times and it's over.

Leaves just sorta disappear.


If we mulch the oak leaves in, we have to use a ton of lime in the
spring to offset the acidity... We use several methods, blow some, rake,
tarp whatever it takes.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:54:29 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

One of my neighbors gets out his Dixon zero turn and mows his lawn one last time. Only he mows circling backwards and while chopping themup, blows the leaves onto a pile then mows the pile munching them even more. Then repeats the process three or four times and it's over.

Leaves just sorta disappear.

That works for a while. Then the leaves overcome the ability of the
mower.

wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:40:16 -0600, Califbill
wrote:

Tim wrote:
Leaves? IMO where they land is where they stay.

I have a couple Liquid Amber trees and Black Alder trees, beside the fruit
trees, so have to blow and vacuum the leaves. Especially in the back yard,
as they screw up the pool chemicals.

That is another advantage of having a pool cage. It keeps the crap out
of the pool. The county says I have 2719 square feet under screen so
it is a pretty good sized cage.

We do not have the bugs here that you got there.

On 11/13/2014 10:30 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:54:29 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

One of my neighbors gets out his Dixon zero turn and mows his lawn one last time. Only he mows circling backwards and while chopping themup, blows the leaves onto a pile then mows the pile munching them even more. Then repeats the process three or four times and it's over.

Leaves just sorta disappear.

That was my strategy in maryland and I do a similar thing here with
the crap that grows over on the area behind me that belongs to FPL. I
have pretty much reclaimed about a quarter acre that was just an
overgrown thicket of peppers, air potatoes and fox grapes.
Once we got the bulk of it out of there I just keep running over it
with the mower. I do the same thing with the live oak leaves.
Turn it all to dust,


Can't do that here... if I let it go we would have three inches of mulch..

Scott, I really didn't know that the oak leaves were that acidic and that you had that great of a concentration of them. Around here it's mostly maples. But I agree with Greg. Mowing them turned the leaves to powder and the wind takes them away. Usually to be replaced by more leaves.