Damn!!! What happened to fall!!

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We’ve had a couple great days up here in Chicago. Definitely taking advantage. A little windy but from the right direction...
 
We've had some really cold weather here (30's in the daytime, mid-20's at night) but yesterday it was about 70*. Windy as all get out but that saves me from having to pick up my leaves. They're all on my neighbor's yard. :cool:
 
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We've had some really cold weather here (30's in the daytime, mid-20's at night) but yesterday it was about 70*. Windy as all get out but that saves me from having to pick up my leaves. They're all on my neighbor's yard. :cool:
Hey, are you the guy that blows the leaves into the street then goes inside for lunch??

Somehow when you come back out they are all gone!!
 
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Hey, are you the guy that blows the leaves into the street then goes inside for lunch??

Somehow when you come back out they are all gone!!

Who, ME? Naw, That raking sounds like way too much work. I just let them sit on my yard for a day or three and wait for a big wind to blow them into my neighbor's yard. :rolleyes:

Actually, I pick them up every few days with my lawn tractor. The timing is based on how many leaves are on the grass.
 
I have 10 oak trees on my one acre. I’m pretty much a slave to leaves from late October to March.
 
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Not to mention acorns every 4-7 years.
 
Now we welcome ETA to South Florida.... Raining raining and raining all day and night.
 
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We have White Oaks and Red Oaks, too many to count. They mast on a cycle that is not clearly understood. Some years there are few to no acorns. Other years we can fill hundreds of large garbage cans with acorns. These trees have not experienced drought in 48 years as they are watered every day from the month of April to mid November. So it is not related to drought. No one has been able to explain it. Confounding the question is the fact that neighbors have different acorn cycles with their Oak trees so it appears to be a microclimate related issue. Any botanists out there who understood why this is such a mystery?
 
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yesterday was 70 and sunny. Bay was like glass.
 
Today I took my Husqvarna lawn tractor over to a neighbor's house. He has a big yard and a bazillion maple trees. Two hours of me riding the tractor and him emptying the bags when they got filled and we were done.

41 bags of leaves in two hours. Not bad!
 
We did not
They are on a about a 10 yr cycle and up at our cottage it was insane. Our oaks were about 90% defoliated by the time the caterpillars were done. A few leaves grew after the caterpillars had turned into the moths, but it was nuts.
Here is what one tree looked like in June. It got worse, but I don't have a picture. This is normally a very healthy oak and you would not be able to see sky through the leaf cover in mid June. The second picture is what the caterpillar droppings on the car sitting under that tree looked like after a couple of hours. Silver lining is there were far less leaves to rake up this fall, I guess.

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