jburns

I stopped raking years ago. A mulching attachment on my Deere. Just mow as normal and presto, a clean yard. In fact I mulch 100% of the time now. I don't get those irritating rows of grass cuttings when I wait a bit to long to mow.

I'm 72 years old(don't say a damn thing) and 10 years ago I had never mowed my yard in November, December, January or February. Now January is the only non-mowing month I have left. I will not mow in January no matter what. In other news I have daffodils six inches tall with visible buds. A few more warm days and they will bloom.

Many here wouldn't even notice it. They would be too busy downloading and posting 340 hour maps.

How about 73º today. IN BOSTON!! Broke the previous record for today by 12º. Boston has had a total of four 70º days in January since 1872. Two of them this weekend.

It's kind of funny to read the comments in the long range discussion wondering where all the 10 day plus cold air and moisture went. The answer is simple and the same every time. They returned to the faulty algorithms that spawned them.

73.5º Hell of a way to run a winter.

That floods when a toilet in the mall backs up.

Simple fix. Don't look at it.

Today is bottom temperature day in Greensboro. Tomorrow the average high moves up a tenth of a degree and begins the march to July.

Ah yes, the good old days.

Sure do. It will have thundered 7-10 days ago.

Until you realize that tomorrow is the average last date of measurable snowfall.

Mommy, why is Frosty glowing?

Thanks bud. It is shaping up to be a different kind of year.

Not much banter last year so let just keep this thread active for 20.

My apologies. I deleted two of these map posts thinking they were identical. Guess I need to see an eye doctor. EDIT: I managed to recover them. No harm no foul.

Another bad sign. Last week in December and the Buffalo Bills are playing a home game in the rain.

Today it reached 67º in Elkins, West Virginia. ELKINS. Not a good sign.

Another year begins.

Quite quiet?

Hoping for a quick and complete recovery.

Only during our usual two weeks of winter. For the fifty weeks of summer you have to up your shower game.

Fly Prevention Trash sealed....check Dog poop picked up.......check Took a shower this morning.........oops

It will make them easier to mulch. One pass and put away the mower for the year.

I agree the manicured(read expensive) lawns look better than my weed lawn. For about 4 months a year if the weather cooperates. The golf course lawn shows heat and water stress first. They stay brown well into the spring and one light frost browns them up for the winter. I'm relaxed and ok with a green fairly good looking yard for most of the year over a four-month showplace. Different strokes for different folks. This is my yard in June. It's not as bright green now but it is basically the same even with the lack of any rain in Sept.