I love the Autumn colours. The hot chocolate. The coming prospect of winter sports on the telly. An excuse to snuggle into warm, thick jumpers (sweaters). The dark skies filled with stars.
Some things I don’t like so much.
The dark days. The sense of isolation. The sense of foreboding. The rain. The mind numbingly cold wind. The rain seeping through the back door.
AND the leaves. Thousands of fallen leaves. For some reason our garden is seemingly the final destination for all the trees in the area. Today I looked at the neighbouring gardens, at most a couple of lonely leaves – all missing their buddies. Well I can tell them where they are. In my garden….
So it has started. Going to get a lot worse, well in our garden anyway…..
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Maybe you’ve hidden leaf magnets
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Maybe I have.
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Lol we are getting a lot of leaves as well. I love them. Xx
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Thank you xxx
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Leaves are the best thing about Autumn
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The colours as they ready to fall.
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I like autumn too. Spring and Autumn are my faves. Why is there an L at the end of some of your posts? Is it a cryptic message for us all?
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Word press gone mad. Can’t get rid of it……
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It is here! I have a lot of work to do in the yard!
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The leaves are here too. I grew up in Kansas and developed a substantial fear of wind and tornadoes. So, when we went to buy a house, the only rule I had was “No trees in the yard.” We have no trees. But my neighbor has the biggest tree ever that just drops leaves that blow into my yard FOR MONTHS. Ugh. I guess, happy leaf cleaning season!
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I hate cleaning them up. I bet you are the same.
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Yes, they are such a pain. And I am even more negative about it because of the effort I went to to avoid the whole leaf cleaning process to begin with. Stupid leaves! 🙂
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Maybe we can ignore them for a while.
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You can blow the leaves to me … I collect them 🙂 I use a thick layer in the flowerbeds for protection during the winter.
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I will.
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Youve got to love those autumn leaves☺
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Absolutely
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I like Autumn as well, except for the fallen leaves, but what used to bother me most about those was people with leaf blowers. The noise! And somehow I couldn’t see the sense in them. Where I am now, fortunately, I never seem to hear one. The colours are spectacular.
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The just blow more in our direction.
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Last weekend it was the first time I collected the first load of leaves too. I just said to my sister-in-law. It needs a while until I can accept that summer is over. But once I do, I really love autumn, its colors, its cooler cozy days.
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They so are. Definitely it’s arrived here.
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Over here too… and no way back… lol
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Definitely not x
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Maybe a dam door would keep water from coming in your back door. Or the ones that act like sandbags outside the door.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Quick+Dam/page/31152792-9945-4820-AA19-7511E2B3DC30?ref_=ast_bln
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It’s because the back door backs on without protection to where the weather blows in from.
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Oh… so not like flooding coming in.
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Not yet, but you cant rule it out.
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How well do I know the leaves feeling…..
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Bet you get one or two.
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It is the joy of living in a conservation area where people…as people do, hold to the mantra of ‘you can’t cut a tree,’ when that is not what the council said. But obvi people hold to things like for various reasons, from being rule abiders par excellence, to lazy mean gits who won’t put their hands in their pockets to maintain what is on their land, to tree huggers who have meltdowns when a branch is lopped. .We have lived, until recently with a wall of out of control giant cypress right across one of the windows.. It is gone now thank to our new neighbour downstairs who has the garden at the front. But you shoulda seen the roots and the damage they’d have done had that thing sat much longer. But when she applied to the council to take it down they initially said no. Get this? Looking at it on Google images and maps, dated 2005. No such thing as sending anyone out. So take what they got. Then this old git across the road who is moving to Edinburgh starts doing the odds at this woman about taking down this lovely old tree. So yeah autumn is fun. We have a maple we maintain but hell the garden is surrounded by other gardens where the trees are not maintained.
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Don’t you love that sort of thing. Remember living in a place where neighbours objected to the shape of hedges. Ended up in a fight over basically a dead tree. Almost went to court. I just kept out of it.
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Oh indeed. INDEED. There were tree wars where we used to live. Tree wars like you never saw. One neighbour way way back was fined hundreds for coming and getting the chainsaw out over a tree that was blocking his panoramic view which this guy out the front of him claimed to own. In fact years later it turned out he never did own it. the guy who was fined owned it. Then there was the epic time years later where in that same lane involving that same out the front nutcase, these guys in council vests appeared one day and took out this other tree which they claimed the council owned. We were all out there grabbing bits for our fires. Then, a week later, the police, who plainly had nowt better to do, were at everyone’s doors cos it wasn’t the council at all who had come out and that nutter wanted reparation for the loss of HIS tree. he and them got short shrift.
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The last place we live at one owner went to court to get one particular tree cut down. Cost him a fortune and much abuse. Anyway he got the go ahead and brought in the contractor. Unfortunately said contractor picked the wrong tree. Left up the one he wanted down and took down his favourite apple tree. Oppssss.
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I guess I’m the only person without the leaves. Oh, the wild Pecan tree drops them, but Dogzilla stomps an crumbles them and it’s not like there’s grass under them to worry about🤷🏼♀️ it would be nice to see pretty colors. But we have Pine, eucalyptus, pepper, palm… not really color changing.
At least your bin will be full😉
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I can send you some xxx
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Fall is my favorite season! Such pretty colors!
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The colours are stunning.
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Those leaves! We have them everywhere too. Oh and forget about it if you miss a week of collecting them up! Blessing and a curse!🍁🍂
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What makes ours worse is that they hide the really spikey nut shells that fall off the trees as well. Agony when you grab one. x
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I do ok when winter first comes … ok woo hoo… rain no more fire threat ❤️
And it’s good for awhile… but then all the gray kinda gets to me and I miss being outside. I miss the sun
We see how I do this year lol – my winters are different then yours probably?
I do remember hating, absolutely hating winter in New England 😝
Freezing 🥶 cold… I get purple blotches everywhere when I am too cold… and that’s on top of freckles 🤨
And if you went outside your snot freezes, your eyeballs water ugh
Yeah not my season!!
But let’s see how I do this year.
By February I will be totally over it lol … usually right after Christmas I am ready for spring lol
Fall just reminds me winter is coming … the dread is looming lol
I am definitely a spring and summer girl completely!!
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Yes when it gets to January it’s now time for the sun. 😀
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Well I just get bummed out with all the gray… and being wet all the time.
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It’s heading our way….
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Lol… I know … this year I’m little better … looking forward to it this year… I’m kinda tired of fires lol ✌️
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Yes I can so imagine that. We are 50F tomorrow…….
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50F is doable and ok… we will be 98F tmrw (36C) 🤨
We still hot but it’s not bad when you come off of temps over 100!! 🤨
We have new fires of course too… yeah 50F sounds great!! Lol
Got rain?
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Nice fire, jumper. 50 works.
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… so I’m coming over lol 😄
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Absolutely 😀
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Stunning colours! You’ve got to love those leaves!
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You do.
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Well… we’re just going to have to find ways to warm up and cheer up this difficult time of year. We can do it. We will figure it out. We will! Blue sky umbrellas help. 😀
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You have the best umbrella ever. But we will figure this out. 😀
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We will! One way or another. Either I have to arm wrestle myself… or you might have to arm wrestle me. 😀
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Remember kicking the opponent’s shin just before the arm wrestle starts is a winning strategy. 😀
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You shouldn’t teach me that. You’ll awaken my violent tendencies. 😀
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Sorry. I should teach you yoga….. 😀
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😂 I don’t think so. That’s too trendy. 😀
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I thought it would be for you. 😊😂
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One day I went out on our balcony and looked out upon the green space and was surprised to see one of the trees completely covered in gold leaves. I still cannot believe I didn’t notice it before. Many of its neighbors were still arrayed in green. I wonder why this particular one changed so completely so quickly, seemingly overnight. Or maybe I’d been sleep-walking through the days and that is why I didn’t notice it. At any rate, I do wish autumn would last a little longer. It seems so incredibly fleeting. I’m with you, I do not look forward to mind-numbing cold either.
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The colours just don’t last long enough.
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Because we live so far north in Alberta the fall season is even shorter….sigh 🙂
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Unbelievably we are slightly further north but we get the Atlantic weather which is like taking us a bit south.
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our fall does not last more than a few weeks before the cold winds of winter begin to freeze us all. I am hopeful it will be a bit longer fall this year as our summer was rather crappy.
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Ours depends on the wind. Given the forecast ours will be equally short and very wet.
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have to enjoy it while it lasts. 🙂
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Absolutely
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❤
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Autumn has smashed into us today, absolutely chucking it down now. Heating has been on all day.
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It is damp and rainy here as well today. But at least we don’t have to shovel rain – so there’s that. 🙂 Stay warm and dry.
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That’s the best way.
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I can’t believe that our leaves are only just starting to turn and not many are falling yet. I love the colors, but it’s too much of a reminder of the coming winter. I have never liked winter and it doesn’t get any better the older I get. I wish we could hibernate like the bears and not come out until spring is in full swing.
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Ours are dropping out if trees now. Won’t be long before they have gone.
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You should be honored to be so popular 🐴
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True
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I’m very jealous. I live in Hawaii and it’s currently 91 degrees with no wind. If we are lucky, it will dip down in to the 70s during the late evenings/early mornings. Oh what I would give to see some fall leaves and feel the rain on my face! 😍
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That’s hot. We have plenty of cold and wind to share.
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