Let It Fly

Our son and his wife Anna joined us for supper Thursday night. There was a catch though.
It is that time for our annual ritual of switching from grass cutting-leaf chopping mode to snow removal mode. Work for food?
It is always tricky timing the leaf chopping and the blower installation. You sure don't want to get caught with snow that needs removing and still have the mower deck on.
We timed it pretty good this year. The leaves are 99 percent down and most of them chopped. Now the 42 inch blower is on and ready.






Thanks again Ben for your help!
Just as we were finishing up installing the chains on the rear tires we heard the dinner bell.
What a great feast we had. Chicken, meatballs, stuffing, squash, banana bread and beer. Perfect!
We all pitched in and did the dishes and then had some time to relax and chat.
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Don't Break A Hip

When we went to bed last night it was 20 degrees outside. When we got up this morning it was 30 degrees. Great news.....so I thought.

After brewing up a pot of coffee I went outside at about 7:15 and thought to myself "this isn't bad at all" until I discovered that everything was coated in ice.

It warmed up just enough to allow the light snow to turn to rain then ice.

I have the day off from work today for Veterans Day so I will be doing some projects around the house and property.

One of my goals is to chop leaves one more time with the tractor. The leaves are all off the trees now so if it warms up just a few more degrees the little bit of snow we have may melt so I would not look so silly out there mowing the snow!

I will let you know how that turns out.

If that gets done I will be calling our son Ben to come over for the annual switching of the tractor accessories. It is time to go from mower deck to chains and blower.

The annual switch can be interesting because of the timing. I want to keep it in mowing mode long enough to pulverize the last of the leaves....but I also want to get the blower put on before the first substantial snow.

Wish me luck.

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