It's that time of year

13 days ago

Each year we look forward to migrating butterflies, humming birds and such as well as first appearance of the groundhog. It's time to start watching for the queen hustling leaves for her bins.

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annpat

4 days ago

To be completely honest, I've been doing a lot of soul searching this past month.

I had some pictures to post and lots of things to brag about, but then I thought, "annpat, what is wrong with you?! What sick sort of pleasure does it bring you to emasculate klem in front of all of our friends Every Single Fall?"

Why! When I look back at some of the things I've called you! Lazy! A fraud! A wanna-be composter!! A loser!

Now I hear you miss me, but you don't know if you can bear the humiliation and the embarrassment that summonsing me might bring you---and that makes me feel terrible. So I gave it a lot of thought, and I came up with this, "Maybe Klem could try harder. Maybe if he got up before noon, or if he could just make a plan and stick to it, or put his shoulder to the grindstone like I and ole_dirt do, then he wouldn't have to slink around here with his tail between his legs every fall, and I wouldn't have to chastize myself for noting his labor-adverse ways."

Yes, why don't kids steal and smash pumpkins like they used to? I remember when I used to drive around with a shovel in my truck every Nov. 1 looking for pumpkins on the side of the road. There are pumpkins tossed on the side of the road nowadays, but we're encouraged to do that for the wildlife, so you look like a crumb if you pick them up and toss them in your truckbed.

I've only gotten one tiny load of seaweed, because I got chatty with a couple from Tennessee when I should have been hauling loads to my truck. (In other words, I pulled a klem.) This Tues. should be a good leaf and pumpkin haul day for me, and II can make two big hauls on the 15th, I hope. I should be able to come home and completely fill a bin or maybe two on Sat. with chipped leaves, grass clippings, apple drops, pear drops, hay from Halloween displays and pumpkins.

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Jerry Vandenberg
12 days ago
I'm waiting and watching, come here almost every day to see any update. Won't be long and it will also be pumpkin scrounging time.

I was gifted an old riding mower with bagger by my neighbor. This year will be a little easier to pick up leaves for the compost pile without weeks of raking. I did run out of leaves from last year so will have to gather more this year.

Thx klem1 for getting something started.
klem1
Original Author
11 days ago
Well Jerry I just hope I don't regret "getting something started". There's an old saying "let sleeping queens lie" that I can't seem to get through my head. I thought about the old @ trick to get things rolling but I'm in no rush to be humiliated and embarrassed. Do you think she found a new passion? Many of my neighbors started playing Pickleball every spare minute they have.
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klem1
Original Author
5 days ago
Let's post @annpat to see if that alerts that we miss her. Meanwhile I'd like to report my pumpkin gathering was disappointing. What's got in to people not carving pumpkins with kids? There's a trend of plastic,,,,,,,yes, artificial pumpkins with a light inside. I will eternally savor the afternoon 27 years ago when my wife and I delivered a pumpkin to our son's house for our 5 year old granddaughter and him to carve. We were near retiring for the night when he called to ask "how do you get all this mess cleaned from inside"? He's helped carve many since and had a ball helping his grandbabies last week.

I see a few in Fall decorations so maybe I can snag a few after Thanksgiving. Our landfill forbids removing anything while bureaucrats want us to recycle as many things as possible to protect our environment.
old_dirt 6a
5 days ago
Yeah, pumpkins are rare here this year too. I usually chop up some for the deer and rest go in the compost pile, deer first so this year not much for the compost. On a brighter note, it looks like I will have more and an abundance of leaves this year.

annpat...missing your input here!
klem1 thanked old_dirt 6a
old_dirt 6a
3 days ago
annpat - All I can say is 'give em hell', composting, klem1 and myself when needed. :)

Good to hear from ya!
annpat
3 days ago
I was here. You and klem weren't. I was worried sick. Then Houzz decided they wanted a password from me, which took me a while to come up with. I was afraid I'd get some big haul and not be able to brag about it.
klem1
Original Author
3 days ago
OMG! The queen is safe. I feared we might have lost her. What if the poor thing was busy deep inside a mountain of bags looking for the best when a giant machine grabbed the pile and dropped it into a shredder? What if Summer residents bagged her up and took her back to their Winter home? And what about "that third mound" we never finished investigating?

I think I'll take a dime bag and go full bore 8 track with Momma Cass in celebration.

Click on Momma Cass if y'all would like to join me.
annpat
2 days ago
last modified: 2 days ago
You underestimate me, klem; I know my way around a leaf pile.

Wouldn't that be cruel, though? Like the unkind rumors that Mama Cass died eating a sandwich. I can see the obituary: annpat (the Compost Queen) died doing what she loved. Composting.

Literally. Her remains were recently found in a bag of chipped leaves with a pumpkin and some grass clippings---a fitting tribute, if heavy on the greens.
klem1
Original Author
2 days ago
Yes I do believe you know your way around but when I see a pile leaves the need for a nap is overwhelming.