Not sure I could have picked a better day to take off from work. We reached 62.5 degrees at 13:39 here today! Unfortunately, the sky has darkened and we have had a few sprinkles this afternoon, effectively postponing the completion of my yard work. The good news, however, is that I started early enough this morning that I was able to complete a few of the tasks that have been on my “to do list” for a while now.
Leaves – who would have thought I could still have leaves on the trees that have yet to fall! It seems like leaves have been falling here for over a month. Our oak trees are the last hold outs. The maples dropped most of their leaves 1-2 weeks ago. I rounded up a portion of the leaves to add to our compost piles. Some of the leaves were shredded with the lawn mower to add another layer of mulch to the garlic I planted the middle of October in our raised beds. The #snowtober storm significantly compacted the first layer of leaf mulch I had added after planting, so it was time to top them off.
Mulched Beds
Flag Mount – It’s amazing what a couple of 3-1/2″ torx screws can do for an improperly installed flag mount. The mount was ripped off the house during some gusty winds when the original 1-1/2″ wood screws let go. The original installer chose a great location at the corner of an exterior stud wall with plenty of material to bite into, unfortunately they just chose too short of a screw with too fine of a thread, that barely made it into the sheathing.
Old Glory Flying High
Garage Door Seal – After starting the project of repairing the spalled concrete edge of the garage floor slab and replacing all the weather-stripping on the garage doors early this summer, I am proud to report this project is completed. The lone hold out on this project was a single seal on the bottom of one garage door that needed to be replaced. An easy enough repair – yet even easier to be pushed to the bottom of the list.
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