Mowing Lawns And Taking Down Lights In December...

Lawns And Lights...

Usually I like having the outdoor Christmas lights up past New Years. I'd like to have them up and on all winter, but they can be a little tacky (but never during Christmas, of course...). But the weather today was so unbelievable that I couldn't resist taking down the outdoor Christmas lights. And while we were doing that, we decided to do a couple of other outdoor things...

 

On December 1st of this year we had some wind hit the area. Some people lost trees, some lost fences, some lost trees and fences, and car windows, and barbecue cookers, and maybe even small pets. We have several tall pine trees next to our house. Our trees were not blown over but they had many many pine needles blow off them. Many of the many many pine needles managed to jam themselves into our rain gutter. I've found the easiest way to clear our rain gutter of pine needles is to climb out onto the roof from my kid's bedroom and scoop them out from above. While I was out there, our cat (or katt--according to Brian Regan...) came out onto the roof with me. I turned around to finish removing the many pine needles and when I looked back, and the cat was gone. I (incorrectly...) assumed the cat went back inside the open window. Nope...I went inside, closed the window and left the cat on the roof. We did get him down...eventually.

Many of the many many pine needles not jammed in our rain gutters ended up on our lawn. We found the best way to clear them from off the lawn was to use the lawn mower. I don't believe I've ever had the lawnmower out in December and/or used the lawnmower in December. And even though it wasn't used to actually mow the lawn, the lawnmower was used.