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Seven large black garbage bags plus a full 50 gallon garbage can (mashed down) filled with leaves from the mountain house today. Big tree in front is only 50% bare so another trip will be needed in about 3-4 weeks. Had to bring most of the bags back with us since they only pick up once a week and no bulk.

2 acres of my yard is thick with trees. I've probably harvested 30-40 over the years but you'd never notice. It's thickly wooded.

My old neighbor was a nut about leaves. For real he'd be out there with a bucket picking up every stray leaf. But he sold n moved. New girl gives no fvcks. She mows sometimes, but that yard has hit 10" more than once. Leaves (they all come from me, Gene cut down all his trees) don't seem to bother her either.

I mowed all 4 acres yesterday. Mostly chopping leaves, but some grass n weeds got knocked down. I didn't run the sweeper, I think I might get a bagger attachment for leaves. Old neighbor would do my woods and burn it all. I never got stuck with the full burden.

Leaves..........that's what the grandkids are for, every Thanksgiving

^^^there is no place worse to drive than through the state of Ohio.

🌄 sinners and saints. We are all buttoned up for winter. Grocery shopping for Thanksgiving today.

Good Tuesday Morning! It's a chill 37° on the way to 58° today. There is an active freeze warning, but as cold as the water is in the river, it's warmer than the air, so far.

I am off to the range today. I got my H-14R back rom Bergara and it appears to be working well. I took it to the range last week to get the scope adjusted and put seven rounds in a ragged hole at 50 yards. Now I'll see it performs at 100 and 200 yards.

Leaves are raining here too. I have a Stihl backpack blower I use to clergies the decks and our driveway, as well as out cut-de-sac, and a couple of our neighbor's driveways. I just blow the into the woods and let the worms to get busy.

Beef. It's what's for thanksgiving dinner

Yeah… we have leaves.

The pile goes the length of our lot (60 feet), about five feet wide and four feet tall.

We do that four times each fall, then one more miscellaneous clean up which is about half of the other.

I thinking you should pull that truck into the back yard and put a whole bunch of holes in it.

Double Shot Tuesday... after the yard work,🥃🥃,,🍹🍹or 🍺🍺 and a cigar. Just LAYABOUT, have a good day

🌞Low fifties high maybe four NINE 😎

Because you're thankful it's not turkey.

I'm good with turkey every now and then. Don't wanna overdo it

65/48 today w/ 10-20mph winds. Thankfully, the pool is heated to 82F. I froze my @ss off getting out of the pool and into some clothes.

Dental appointment went very well, thankfully no work needs to be done.

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Happy Hump Day danm & gang.

Been feasting a bit much lately. Also been avoiding the gym because it's so damn cold in the mornings...

Good thing I been walking the dog 4 miles a day.

Saw a family of 5 coyotes on our nature walk, yesterday. Tank was off leash and looked like he was about to go f--- one of them up, so I grabbed him and leashed him real fast. 1 on 1, he's got a puncher's chance. 5 on 1, he's dead meat. He's very friendly with other dogs. He was growling with hackles up... must know, instinctively, they are not dogs.

Found the wrist rocket in the garage for the next time we walk that area... latex tubing needs to be replaced so I ordered 2 replacement bands. I threw a few rocks their way, and they were unbothered by it. Looked at me and laid down under the bushes... but to be fair, my aim sucked and they were farther away than I could throw. Hence the wrist rocket and some 1/2" clay ammo balls. I suspect if I see them again, they'll know to fkn run next time.

In my area they are becoming very aggressive with people walking smaller dogs. Couple of incidents of attacking dogs while on leash recently.

57F headed to 72F. Gonna have to wait until this afternoon to swim.

Tank is 60 pounds of muscle and jaws. Obviously I don't want him fighting, but I don't think one of them would even consider attacking him. 5 of them surely would if he got close enough. The area where we walk is full of jack rabbits and ground squirrels, so they're not going hungry.

Coyotes were an issue on our property. Multiple blasts of rock salt in their as and they decide our property was not a good place to be.

Can't do that. This big ol' meadow area is smack in the middle of a neighborhood. No shooting.

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We walk the outside paths and it takes us about 50-60 minutes to go all the way around it. Those 5 coyotes are probably the "owners" of that whole territory. It is very hilly and folks like to mountain bike those trails. It's a good workout walking up and down the hills and the pupper gets to explore with his nose and exercise his brain as well as his legs.

Coyotes aren't stupid. They would have to be desperate to attack anything that could put up much of a fight unless they are hunting in a pack. Wild animals can't afford to get injured. But many of the dogs I see people walking are little lap dogs not much bigger than a rat with more hair. Any good sized rabbit could clean their clock.

I would say you are telling a lie, but it is California. Ouch!!! Nevada is so much more free.

Impressive! I was very unhappy when I had to pay about $1500 for a $680 50 gallon electric water heater replacement on a rental. It started leaking during the closure process so I had to have a plumber do the replacement. It already had a pan and drain, but the CPVC piping from the wall to the valves and the water heater were replaced with PEX, the shutoff valves were also replaced with brass ball valves. The pressure/temperature relief valve, that I would have replaced at cost was included, you do not want t re-use them.