Late Fall Garden, and other random things

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Hello, and welcome to my page!

It's been a while since my last post, about 2 weeks, so I thought it was about time to get back on here. The last post I wrote was right before the hard fork. As most of you know, it took the blockchain a while to stabilize after the hard fork. I think it was something like 3 days before I could upvote a post, and about a week before I was able to claim my post rewards. I ended up having to change the node I was on to be able to do that. It seems to have settled down now and I haven't had any problems for the past couple of days, so I finally feel comfortable writing a post again.

Fall turned into winter a couple of weeks early here in south central upper Michigan. We've been getting snow here since about the middle of October, and not all of it has melted away yet. That's been making it hard to rake the maple leaves in the back yard, one of the last fall projects for me. Our tree sheds it's leaves much later than the colorful sugar maple trees, it took the snow to bring half of them down, and there's still a lot of leaves on the tree.

I normally rake up the leaves and put them on the garden to provide mulch and feed the soil, but it's been a bit of a challenge this year. I had previously gathered up the leaves from the curb across the street from the neighbor's sugar maple tree and shredded them into the garden. I had carried away most of this pile by the time I took this picture. The neighbor used a leaf blower to get them out of his back yard and to the curb. The city does curbside leaf removal, but I beat them to these leaves.
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After running them through the shredder, they make a nice thick layer in the garden.
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I took part of the pile up to my plots at the community garden to mulch them for next year. This is an earlier progress picture, apparently I didn't take a picture of the results of second trip to the community garden with leaf mulch.
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The weather forecast for the next several days is for temperatures above freezing during the day and no precipitation, I'm hoping they're right for a change so that I can get the rest of the leaves gathered up and run through the shredder.

I still have some carrots in the raised bed, but they're covered up so they should still be ok, if I can pull them out this week. Pretty much everything else is done for the year as far as the gardens go.

Since I've been stuck inside due to the weather, I've had to shift my brain into winter mode. That usually involves a struggle with depression from the change of seasons. I certainly have enough stuff to keep me busy inside during the winter, but my mind misses the sun on these gloomy days that seem to go on for weeks at a time. I've been working on a few of my hobby projects, and wasting time on the internet. The internet has a way of doing that to a person...

I had started writing about my on-going travel trailer project before the hard fork, I'm going to have to get back to that in the next couple of days, and hopefully I'll have some other things to write about, since the garden is pretty much done for the year.

Well, that's all I have for this post, thanks for stopping by to check it out!

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I saw that Marquette got around 8 inches of snow the other day. That is pretty crazy. Looks like you have a good start for next Spring when you are ready to plant again. I threw some of my grass and leaves on top of my garden this past weekend as well.

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Yeah, Marquette got dumped on...
We still have a bit of snow on the ground here, mostly in the shade areas. I'm hoping more of it will melt tomorrow so I can get the leaves out of those areas, otherwise it's going to be a real mess in the spring.
The worms will turn those grass clippings and leaves into good fertility for the garden next year. :-)

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I am hoping to only have to mow and bag my leaves one more time this year and then I should be good.

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