Twiggybet1's Blog

The temperature got into the low 50's yesterday, so I spent a good part of the day outside cleaning up the leaves.  Most of the trees are bare now, so I don't feel as if I'm fighting a losing battle.  Every time I filled the trash can with leaves, I brought them to the chipper/shredder and ground them up.  My patio finally looks clean. I worked outside until it started raining in the late afternoon.  Today it has been one of those drizzly rainy days, and it is forcasted to rain for the rest of the week here, so it looks like I wont have a chance to get outside again for a while.  It figures that when it is "warm" it is also wet.  Much easier to clean up dry leaves than wet, I think.  

I need to clean the gutters out.  This year I'm installing gutter guards as I clean them.  I sure hope I get another dry day before the rain changes to snow.  That would be miserable working conditions.  Hubby and I have discussed installing gutter guards before, and he always had some reason for not wanting to get them.  Either he thought them an expensive unnecessary expense, didn't think they would work very well, etc.  I tried to recall the last time I saw him on the ladder cleaning out the gutters and couldn't remember.  So I asked him when the last time he took a turn at it and he told me he couldn't remember ever cleaning them.  Aha!  So it's settled.  We ARE getting rain gutter guards.

I still haven't put a border around the rain garden.  Hmm, what to do?  I am thinking (changing my mind again, dangerous thing!) that a rock border would be more to my liking.  Maybe look more "natural".  That would also make it easier to redo the border if I decide to expand it a bit more next year.  I didn't make it as large as I could have.  It is hard to tell how well it is working.  The area hasn't been flooded, all the water that is diverted there seems to be soaking in to the area like a sponge.  Which is what I want, of course.