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Bit of a knot here Russ.........

All very fine having all the wonderfully coloured leaves in October......it is having said leaves, now brown and crunchy, all over the lawn in November that is the problem.
Not just the lawn.
The gutters are clogged with them, the basement window wells are overflowing with them....sigh.
Time to do something about it.
So, out came the ladder and the gutters got a "coat of looking at" first.
Bunged up.
At this point it got amusing.
Philip had been up the ladder, scraping leaves and muck out for about 10 minutes....when..........across the road.......out came Merv, Mrs Merv and ladder.
He started doing his gutters too.
We were smiling, sneakily.
His lawn is immaculate........not a leaf in sight..........ours, as you can see below, not so much.
But, he must have forgotten his gutters. I mean he is always out there doing something but, he had forgotten his gutters.
He must have been mortified when he saw Philip up his ladder.
Look at Merv's garden and compare it to ours.


We go for the "au naturelle" look.
Well we did.........we had to rake the leaves up and clear out the basement window wells before the snow flies.
Then, after spending hours testing the poxy, wonderful, LED outside lights we eventually put them up...all over the house and garage.
That isn't to say it all went swimmingly. Lights that worked when we tested them indoors had given up the ghost as soon as we got them outside.
But, after a few...j...j...j....jiggle its , some replacements and more than a handful of swear words .....they are up there.
We won't put the garden decorations out until December. It is just the roof you want to do before it is covered in ice.
We won't have them lit until December either although it wouldn't surprise me if half of them don't work by then anyway.

Philip's mates are coming this afternoon to play AD&D.
I am going to make them some hot dogs then I shall make myself scarce.
I recorded a wondrous film the other day and I shall watch that or a Poirot probably.
The film is..........MOTHRA...............bliss and joy.

posted by Sue Banks @ 1:27 PM