Showing posts with label leaves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leaves. Show all posts

Sunday, April 3, 2011

michigan weather...

I didn't know which blog to post this to, but I guess it's about outside so it should go in the garden blog.

Yesterday I spent a good couple two-three hours working in the yard; sweeping out the garage and cleaning up some of the flower beds.  The temp was pretty nice in order to work outside - it was close to 60 degrees at times.
This is the before shot...but I didn't think to get an after :(
A little sowbug killer spider that I unearthed while removing leaves.
It's not like we don't still have snow on the ground up here.  Yep, we live "up north" and we still have plenty of snow on the ground in areas that are in the shadows.  Yesterday, I only worked the areas that didn't have snow anymore. 
All the snow we still have + a little layer from today's snow.
And then today...!  Today I went to the movies with my friend Deepa.  While driving there it was a near white-out!  When I got home from the movies, I had to shovel my driveway and throw all that snow into the flower beds that I just clean up yesterday!
I was thinking bunny, but I believe these are squeaky (squirrel) tracks.
Yesterday 60's, today 30's and snow.
One of the beds I cleaned yesterday.
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Also, I had noticed some tire tracks in the snow on our driveway when I came home from the movies, but didn't pay any attention to them.  I thought someone had just pulled in to turn around or something.  Finishing up shoveling at the bottom of the driveway by the road is when I saw that someone had just recently dug a hole in my flower bed along the driveway.  Kinda big hole.  I guess it was the person who belonged to these tire tracks.  Curious.  Now I'm wondering if the person who did this has anything to do with the gas company's project that is supposed to start tomorrow.  Maybe checking to see if the ground is still frozen...or...did someone just steal some of my tulips? 
This is the hole that someone dug just before I got home from the movies.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

leaf plow...

Today (and the previous week or so) we've been raking leaves.

Last week, it was getting too dark to complete the job, so in the morning on our way to work, we drove through a pile of leaves and for over a mile, we were dropping leaves from under our MINI Cooper.

This gave me an idea - let's use the MINI as a leaf plow...



Makes the majority of the work a lot easier.