On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:17:55 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:38:16 -0500, JohnH wrote:

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:22:23 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:48:42 -0400, JohnH penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:22:52 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:47:09 -0400, JohnH wrote:

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:16:39 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

The National Weather Service has issued a significant storm warning for our
area starting early Sat AM and extending into Sunday. Sustained winds of 35
mph with gusts of up to 60 mph.

So, here I am back on the boat to ride it out. Should be fun.

Eisboch


We're getting some strong winds right now. I got the leaves off the yard
earlier. Now it looks like it's not been touched. I hate leaves.

I wait until the second week of November, then do the lawn.

Gets all the little bas...er...leaves that way.

I've got 11 large oaks to contend with. If I don't hit the leaves every
third or fourth day, I'd never be able to wade through them. I'm talking
some serious leaves here!

I'm hitting the job with the leaf blower today.... 21 MPH gusts
yesterday did a number on the leaves and if I don't get a head-start
it is just too much of a PITA to wait... especially since we had very
poor fall color this year and the leaves are all turning brown and
falling at the same time...

First I have to get the damn acorns up. Right now they're blanketing the
back yard. Know any good way to do that?

Buy a couple of hundred squirrels and let 'em loose.

So far I've been able to get the leaves up with the mower, but soon they'll
be too thick for that.

Amateur.

I'm sorry John - I can't help it. :)

I have eleven oak trees just along the frontage of my property alone.
Throw in a few pine trees, hemlocks, maples, aspens and birch trees,
it's a real problem.

Thus my approach - allow all the leaves to fall, then vacuum them up
with the residual leaves using a leaf blower.

While outside raking acorns an hour or so ago, I thought to myself, "That
smartass Tom will tell me to get a bunch of squirrels."

Sure as ****.

I've got enough damn squirrels. But, we've just noticed, last week, a fox
in the neighborhood. Maybe that's why it seems the squirrel population (and
cat population) has gone down some.