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What's your Weather like today

We got down to 30F last night, but today was pretty sunny and we rose to about 54F by afternoon.

I got more leaves blown into heaps and ground down into dust and loaded up for pickup come Thursday. I need to get more paper leaf bags because I'm down to one more and I'll fill it well before pickup day.

Got a little solar power collected, brought one larger powerstation up to about 54%. I just have enough open windows on the sky these days to put out panels for more and the Sun moves pretty fast now for fewer hours each day.
 
Days are shorter now for sure. Got up to 36 F. after a low of around 20 F. last night. Snow predicted after midnight tonight and continuing into tomorrow. The ground is colder now, so it could stay for a while, but I don't think it is the beginning of snow season quite yet.
 
Might get to 56F with clouds and a chance of sprinkles. Should also get gusty, so I'll get my string of Halloween lights in (turned them off days ago) and maybe call it good outside unless the Sun breaks through.

Always more leaves this time of year, but if winds are high there isn't much point in doing battle with them. At some point I should get a final grass mowing in. Growth has slowed but it is long in places, no point in letting Winter snows mat it down.
 
19 F./-7 C, this morning and no snow at all. The sky is partly cloudy as the sun rises. Weather folks were wrong once again.
 
Yesterday we had enough clear sky early on that after grinding up a few more piles of leaves I was able to recapture almost 80% of the electricity I used for the leaf blower and the mulcher using solar panels.

My yard isn't huge, but those powerstation "solar generator" units work well when I need electricity outside. I can drag them anywhere and don't need to worry about the limits of long outdoor extension cords. I haven't used my Honda gasoline generator at all this year.

We're supposed to warm up enough today to even reach 61F or so before rain settles in. This weekend though, we have conditions setting up that may bring us snow. Nights are already dropping under freezing.
 
15 F./-9.4 C. here this morning and the weather is expected to cool as the week progresses into the weekend. Snow is again predicted for tomorrow, but they have been wrong on that prediction every time so far this fall. Time will tell, but as it progresses into winter, the ground is cooler now, so the likelihood that it will stay until March or April increases.
 
Sunny until late, got up to 52F. Captured a small but decent amount of solar power.

Another day, another crop of leaves. Last night fell to about 26F, causing two more trees to begin their drop. Blew a lot of leaves and ground up quite a bit. Still more to go though. I have two large piles waiting to be attacked. Supposed to rain tonight and through the morning. I hope we don't get much. I need to attack what I can: this weekend threatens quite a bit of slushy snow.
 
Well darn. Too wet to grind up the leaf piles I left out there once it got dark. Still hoping things dry out a bit before we get the snow this weekend. Supposed to get quite gusty later on here as clouds clear.

1 to 3 inches expected, so not very much and the ground is still warm enough that it might quickly melt off or go slushy if we get a little more than that.

I'm mentally turning to enjoying the first non-trivial snowfall of the year. Perhaps I'll take some pics if it clings heavily to tree branches as wetter snows typically do.
 
4 F./-16 C. here this morning, so it is starting to get chilly. Sky is clear and the day will be bright now that the earth is covered in white form the last snowfall.
 
Coming up on 3 AM here, it is 24F out right now.

Saturday I gathered and ground up leaves until I was sick of it. Sadly, I left two piles out front even though I had wanted to grind them first. I definitely have a load for Thursday pickup though, and only two more pickups for the season left after that.

The "dampener" was the snow late Saturday night and throughout the day on Sunday. It alternated between flurries and drizzle and I'm just not used to hanging around outside in these temperatures yet.

I'm still gradually dropping more weight, and this does seem to be making me less cold-tolerant, just as one might expect. Just one more thing to deal with.

I was determined to enjoy the snow antithetically but... :ROFLMAO: so much for that!

The battle of the leaves will continue, as it always does this time of year. While I'm dumping some at the treeline out back, just as every year I'll end up storing up a bunch to get rid of come April when lawn pickup resumes. Hopefully the price doesn't rise too much again.

I don't have enough nitrogenous waste to make composting practical. When I dump leaves out back it takes years for the worms to work through it even if I try forking it over for aeration. We haven't been allowed to burn leaves for decades now here. So I'm stuck just making it all work.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
Coming up on 3 AM here, it is 24F out right now.

Saturday I gathered and ground up leaves until I was sick of it. Sadly, I left two piles out front even though I had wanted to grind them first. I definitely have a load for Thursday pickup though, and only two more pickups for the season left after that.

The "dampener" was the snow late Saturday night and throughout the day on Sunday. It alternated between flurries and drizzle and I'm just not used to hanging around outside in these temperatures yet.

I'm still gradually dropping more weight, and this does seem to be making me less cold-tolerant, just as one might expect. Just one more thing to deal with.

I was determined to enjoy the snow antithetically but... :ROFLMAO: so much for that!

The battle of the leaves will continue, as it always does this time of year. While I'm dumping some at the treeline out back, just as every year I'll end up storing up a bunch to get rid of come April when lawn pickup resumes. Hopefully the price doesn't rise too much again.

I don't have enough nitrogenous waste to make composting practical. When I dump leaves out back it takes years for the worms to work through it even if I try forking it over for aeration. We haven't been allowed to burn leaves for decades now here. So I'm stuck just making it all work.
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You can put wet leaves into a black plastic trash bag and leave them in a sheltered area. They should then be leaf mold by sometime nest year. Not as good as compost as fertilizer, but it does contain a lot of trace minerals and can easily be used s a mulch. If you don't want to send them to the landfill or wherever. The idea came from Gardening Canada, so it should work fine in Michigan.

11:30 PM here and the outside is at 0 F. so the rest of the night should be colder.
 
Just after 8 AM here and now at 16 F. Might not get much warmer despite clear skies. Supposed to snow more here later on.

I'd left wet grass clippings in black bags on the South side of the house one year. Turned into quite a mess of bacterial foam, much like mayonnaise.

I'll have to experiment if things warm up here. I can always use a lawn topper that doesn't mat down into grass-choking thatch. It might be too late to try to get a heap up to any kind of composting core temperature now. If it came to it I'm not averse to peeing in bottles for a while to get nitrogen as long as I could expect results. 😜
 
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