Coffee Break # 44 - Fall is here

Coming from here:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1124670/

Temps have been much lower the past few days. That feeling is in the air, despite the calendar saying it's still summer.

Lovely photo, sets the mood for the next 3 months.

Yes, soon I'll have to pick up leaves again!

Winters have been getting milder down here lately, good weather lasting though October and into November. Would like some more rain though.

It is NOT time to start using the 'f' word yet (hmpff)

leaves here are made into compost. The resulting 'post' looks great in the beds. DH spread some yesterday & we divided an SDB iris which needed stuff to eat. Planted 57 plants, many of them nubbins.

You feed your irises? I never have! The one thing I miss during the fall is light....hate to see it get dark in the middle of the day!

Iris are heavy feeders, you have to renew their soil at times.

I LOVE fall!!!

Thanks, Iris....will do that.

Infamous Day today

The leaves here are bagged by the residents and picked up by the town with hydrogen powered garbage trucks. They take the leaves to an 'eco dump' and covert it to compost. Then the compost is pushed up into mounds by bulldozers. Residents of this town can then come by and pick up the compost for free, people come with 5 gal buckets & garbage cans, there is no limit. They do the same with branches, converting them into mulch and making it available for free.

- The nicest thing is that the 'eco-dump' is also a shelter for wild animals which have been injured and rescued, bears, eagles, owls, horses, etc, etc., are housed in an outside zoo where families can come and visit. They also have a botany center and hiking trails with illustrated & informative markers/ waypoints.

(Taken last week 9/5, when I went to dump the grass clippings from my yard in their designated area for processing)

Interesting, especially about the animals. They bag leaves here, but I don't know what is done with them. We have a wooded hill so DH drags them to the bottom of the hill on a tarp. He has a couple places which we used for manure when we had the ponies. He piles them inside and the oldest one was turned to compost, with a bit of help from material which can be mixed in to hurry it up, The oldest pile is providiing the compost to us at this time.

Yes, Maria, today is an infamous day.....had no idea what was happening to family members who worked in the city. WC, great place for composting.....we have a brush dump (we must take our own stuff there), but I have seen fishers there.

Ahh yes, Fishers, highly prized for their pelts once, didn't know they came so far south, their numbers must have risen due to conservation efforts.

I have fishers in our woods, once when our former dog spotted one he would not stop barking, I had to investigate and there was the fisher way up in a tree. I checked on him several times without the dog , the fisher was always there for quite a few days.

Perfect weather here, clear with only cotton puffs for clouds, just right. For me anyway

Yes, tough day every year for me, Maria. Very personal.

They, (the Fishers), have been known to eat dogs, cats & small children.

So Sorry Victor, I will always remember watching "Good Morning" news that day.

The one I saw was not very large, about the size of a Beagle

It will always be sad on 9/11....forever.

yes it will... either I missed the motorcycle run that usually goes by this weekend or it is today.. it starts off with a ton of sirens ... and it must have taken close to an hour and a half for all them to pass by... the one year I was going to party city to get something for Halloween and was watching the whole thing from the opposite side of the road.. last year Randy and I went to Burger King out on the highway to watch more comfortably ... every hook & ladder, construction companies that are located on 46 had huge American Flags flying over the highway... and it's all a fundraiser for the victims families

that first time I saw it... it actually moved me so much I just started crying

It is moving....my late husband's niece lost her fiancee to brain cancer 4 years ago...he was a fireman & EMT....there was at least one fireman with him 24/7 the last week....they said a brother does not die alone.......very moving.

This is sick....who would do that to a baby??

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100912/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_airplane_baby

Disgusting. All too common, though.

Looks like a desperate attempt by a desperate, poverty stricken mother wanting to get her child out of a hostile environment.

In a garbage bag? I would of given it to the 1st American women I came to. ^_^

Through the many years I have lived this is not the first time and it will not be the last.

Wow, the quality of trailer park people has gone down!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1311300/Husband-enraged-wife-cooked-eggs-kills-others.html

Sheer insanity, how sad

Speaking of 9/11 sadness, etc., one of my close friends who is a cop and was there on 9/11 and lost many friends, lost his mom late last night or early this morning. How terrible that this date will now be a reminder of a second trauma. Will be going to the wake tomorrow.

I thinking that guy had more issues then just blowing his stack over poorly cooked eggs.

So sorry to hear Victor.

Yes, I agree. Thanks, Jen.

That is sad, Victor....hopefully she had a long, happy life....it helps.

How sad is that Victor, just terrible for your friend.

She was 80 or 81. Great lady. My mom has been friends with her for 50 years.

Then your Mom will need lots of consoling......

Yes, she was pretty upset when she called me.

I woke up to the firecracker sound of a tree branch breaking off... or a tree coming down.. too dark to see where though

Scary. My tree gets cut tomorrow.

If would probably swerve and hit you head on.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r26AwT7PTM