The Leaves Are Almost Off the Trees

Monday, November 15, 2021
Hello friends,
The leaves are almost off the trees and stuffed in the gutters. I suppose I should go up there and clean them out. Sigh. I can get to most of the gutters after climbing out the upstairs bedroom window and walking around on the roof, however the back of the house and the top is just too steep for me to be comfortably safe. We tried to hire someone to put gutter guards on, but they just wouldn’t show up to do the job. Sometimes its hard to get someone to do a job that you physically can’t do yourself.
We pulled the rest of the garden plants out and put them in the compost, except the asparagus and parsley which still have some life in them. Always a big job. This year we made an effort to put the tomato vines somewhere besides the compost because they had quite a bit of blight. There is a low spot in front of lane 5 that seemed like a good spot. The cows are really curious about it, but nothing to eat there so they move on. The chickens have unfortunately found the garden and if I don’t get them chased out in time, they rearrange everything in their search for whatever it is they are finding. They REALLLY want to scratch up all that hay mulch I had put down. I REALLY don’t want everything rearranged!….