In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Clean up day for me.
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Alberta, Canada
Grizzly country is no place to go for a walk with your dog and no bear spray
https://x.com/MagneticNorse/status/2070237921462911466#m
You can walk your dog in grizzly country but I wonder. For it to get so close to a person, maybe the bear had cubs near by. I think it is still breeding season and so that could be why the bear responded like it did.
IMHO the bear wasn't behaving like it was protecting cubs bc usually momma bear sends cubs up a tree and tries to stay between cubs and threat.
I noticed, parenthetically, that her dog was very, very quiet. Quite possibly the dog was the real target. When we're walking, my small dog sometimes attracts scary attention from big dogs. We have on occasion been stalked, lunged at, and attacked (once). That's what the bear's behavior looked like to me ne.
The most effective way in my experience to disrupt the threatening dog's intention is to pick my dog up. She immediately becomes almost invisible as a target. And, of course, you never, ever, turn your back on a threatening dog. Or bear, apparently!
IDK how big her dog is, but I think it's a good thing it was quiet bc if it was yapping its head off, it would simply have attracted more attention.
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Got some of my stuff done today. Mowed the back lawn and pulled all the weeds off the driveway and swept it up.
I'm not even supposed to have 3 huge trash bins, but I lucked into an extra one years ago. I only ever put 2 out on the curb because I'm afraid they'll take the extra one away from me if I do, so I've already got one full bin that won't get picked up on trash day. I had to use a 55 gallon black bag just to put the debris from my driveway into, and it just barely fit. Thankfully they took all the big stuff or I'd be getting rid of that over the next 2 months.
Everything is pretty much done now except for the sidewalk and the curb on one side of the house. I wanted to spray for poison after I was done, but it started getting really windy and looked like rain. Checked online and there was enough of a chance tonight to talk me out of it.
Got my grocery shopping done and I'm doing nothing the rest of the night. 
Probably won't be doing much at all for the next 5 days while the high is over 100 degrees with the Real Feel.
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Quote:What did you do with your front lawn that took so much work? Bc 13 hours, that's ALOT of work!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Got some of my stuff done today. Mowed the back lawn and pulled all the weeds off the driveway and swept it up.
I'm not even supposed to have 3 huge trash bins, but I lucked into an extra one years ago. I only ever put 2 out on the curb because I'm afraid they'll take the extra one away from me if I do, so I've already got one full bin that won't get picked up on trash day. I had to use a 55 gallon black bag just to put the debris from my driveway into, and it just barely fit. Thankfully they took all the big stuff or I'd be getting rid of that over the next 2 months.
Everything is pretty much done now except for the sidewalk and the curb on one side of the house. I wanted to spray for poison after I was done, but it started getting really windy and looked like rain. Checked online and there was enough of a chance tonight to talk me out of it.
Got my grocery shopping done and I'm doing nothing the rest of the night.
Probably won't be doing much at all for the next 5 days while the high is over 100 degrees with the Real Feel.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
After that disaster and all that cleanup, I hope you take the break you keep saying you're going to do... but never seem to get around to!
Enjoy your AC!
Recoup and regroup!
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My mission today .... not like SIX'S!
Rake and sweep the driveway, bin up the weeds that I've been digging up the past week.
It took me about 1.5 hours today, and between today and this week I've filled up three 95 gal greenwaste bins. Almost back to where we were a month ago.
I don't know whether to be pleased or unhappy.
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What did you do with your front lawn that took so much work? Bc 13 hours, that's ALOT of work!
I didn't even start mowing the front lawn until around 7PM. My across the street neighbor had been offering me his really nice lawn mower last year, but I needed the exercise from my push mower anyway and haven't been asking him for it this year. He must have really appreciated the work he saw me doing all day because he came out with his hand strapped to his side and blood caked on it to offer me his mower.
I got up early for a change and started working at 7AM. Had to get all the limbs and branches from Evil Tree out of my back yard and to the curb. Mind you, my land is something like 36,000 or 39,000 sq. ft., which might clue you in to just how far I had to go to get all that to the curb. At least I had my trusty big boy wagon to help with the giant ones. Took forever to clean up all the debris though. Then I did the same in the front, which was even worse because that had the side of the house with 15 to 20% of Evil Tree all along side of it. Must have been picking up branches at least 5 or 6 hours of that time. My inner thighs are on fire right now. Working about 7 hours today probably didn't help.
I also pulled all the weeds in the river rock hoasta beds. The moles have absolutely ruined that, so if I don't spray, I'm getting weeds again. At least not nearly as many as I got when it was bare dirt, but enough to make me remember how much I hate this cursed house every time I look at it.
Then I edged the hoasta beds with my hands. It's been a few years, and because of the moles and the ants and all the water the lip that was dry and completely visible on the edge of it the first 4 years I lived here is just covered in wet mud and weeds now. I just rolled that up like sod and threw it away. I also swept up the street and the curb and got my sewer completely cleaned out and swept my walkway.
The front lawn was the last thing I finished.
I was cooked. I really don't even remember yesterday or last night all that much. I got a lot of sleep that I don't usually get. I needed it, because I don't feel like I got all that much. Finger's crossed I'm not up all night again.
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After that disaster and all that cleanup, I hope you take the break you keep saying you're going to do... but never seem to get around to!
Nah... I get way more than I should. I might have kept my mind busy for 2 years on that project, but a big part of the reason that everything I've been doing the last few days has been so difficult is because I wasn't keeping my body busy.
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Enjoy your AC!
Recoup and regroup!
I don't know if "enjoy" is the right word. I'm pretty sure Monday and Tuesday should be okay, but once 3 days of this temp come by us it's really struggling to keep up and we've got 5 of them, with the 6th being 88 degrees.
I might have to go outside every once in a while just to remind myself how good I still have it and that I spent 10 years in my house with a few summers even hotter than this without any A/C at all.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
My mission today .... not like SIX'S!
Rake and sweep the driveway, bin up the weeds that I've been digging up the past week.
It took me about 1.5 hours today, and between today and this week I've filled up three 95 gal greenwaste bins. Almost back to where we were a month ago.
I don't know whether to be pleased or unhappy.
We don't do the green bins here. I know they do them on the south side of Chicago and in Evergreen Park, but I don't think they do them in Oak Lawn, which is just a little further away from Chicago. It wouldn't surprise me if Orland Park did it too, even though they're pretty far away, but I think you'd have to go to the more Northern suburbs of Chicago to get a lot of green bins. I never had them growing up, and I know my grandma didn't get them until sometime after I wasn't living there anymore. In most of Illinois, you pay for that privilege. I remember the good old days of having to go to the grocery store to buy leaf bags, and then having to put stickers on each bag that were $0.75 each from the same grocery store, and all of that money was just a tax the city collected from us. Illegal to burn them too... how about that?
Boy... back when I had 3 Silver Maples instead of just 1 along with all of the neighborhood leaves on my lawn, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than 100 leaf bags to get that job done. That'd been over $75 just to get my leaves carted away... back in the late 1990's.
Out here we just throw branches in with the trash if they're small enough, or cut them to 4 feet and leave them on the curb. This storm was thankfully a rare exception to the 4 foot rule. I thought I'd have to wait a week to test that theory out, but boy am I glad I pulled all that out on the morning that I did because 3 hours later it was all gone. Watched them come with some cool truck that had this pinching shovel thing on the end and he was just scooping them up with all the power you wish those scam crane game cranes had. And he was just putting them all into the big dump truck that was driving around with him. Boy, would I have been mad at myself if I missed that opportunity.
How on earth did you fill up three 95 gallon bins without any storms that you're screaming about???? Is that lawn clippings too???
With how slow I'm moving these days, I'm just imagining you out there like Betty White on crack running circles around me.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Alberta, Canada
Grizzly country is no place to go for a walk with your dog and no bear spray
https://x.com/MagneticNorse/status/2070237921462911466#m
You can walk your dog in grizzly country but I wonder. For it to get so close to a person, maybe the bear had cubs near by. I think it is still breeding season and so that could be why the bear responded like it did.
IMHO the bear wasn't behaving like it was protecting cubs bc usually momma bear sends cubs up a tree and tries to stay between cubs and threat.
I noticed, parenthetically, that her dog was very, very quiet. Quite possibly the dog was the real target. When we're walking, my small dog sometimes attracts scary attention from big dogs. We have on occasion been stalked, lunged at, and attacked (once). That's what the bear's behavior looked like to me ne.
The most effective way in my experience to disrupt the threatening dog's intention is to pick my dog up. She immediately becomes almost invisible as a target. And, of course, you never, ever, turn your back on a threatening dog. Or bear, apparently!
IDK how big her dog is, but I think it's a good thing it was quiet bc if it was yapping its head off, it would simply have attracted more attention.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
From what I've seen momma bears do send their cubs away from the danger. So probably not that. This story was on the news and the bear for a grizzly seemed on the small side. My thought now is how old was it.
The dog was most like the target and you couldn't really see the dog in the video. But I don't think it was small enough that she could have easily picked it up.
No, wildlife officers say Never turn your back on a bear. They will start chasing you.
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Just a quiet day around me. Need to clean my hearing aides and replace the batteries for use.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
My mission today .... not like SIX'S!
Rake and sweep the driveway, bin up the weeds that I've been digging up the past week.
It took me about 1.5 hours today, and between today and this week I've filled up three 95 gal greenwaste bins. Almost back to where we were a month ago.
I don't know whether to be pleased or unhappy.
SIX:
We don't do the green bins here. I know they do them on the south side of Chicago and in Evergreen Park, but I don't think they do them in Oak Lawn, which is just a little further away from Chicago. It wouldn't surprise me if Orland Park did it too, even though they're pretty far away, but I think you'd have to go to the more Northern suburbs of Chicago to get a lot of green bins. I never had them growing up, and I know my grandma didn't get them until sometime after I wasn't living there anymore. In most of Illinois, you pay for that privilege. I remember the good old days of having to go to the grocery store to buy leaf bags, and then having to put stickers on each bag that were $0.75 each from the same grocery store, and all of that money was just a tax the city collected from us. Illegal to burn them too... how about that?
They're only doing greenwaste bins bc they're running out of landfill space, I kid you not! They truck it to these big commercial composting operations, and just to incentivize people to use them, we get them for free, no monthly fee.
Eat your heart out!
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SIX:
Boy... back when I had 3 Silver Maples instead of just 1 along with all of the neighborhood leaves on my lawn, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than 100 leaf bags to get that job done. That'd been over $75 just to get my leaves carted away... back in the late 1990's.
Out here we just throw branches in with the trash if they're small enough, or cut them to 4 feet and leave them on the curb. This storm was thankfully a rare exception to the 4 foot rule. I thought I'd have to wait a week to test that theory out, but boy am I glad I pulled all that out on the morning that I did because 3 hours later it was all gone. Watched them come with some cool truck that had this pinching shovel thing on the end and he was just scooping them up with all the power you wish those scam crane game cranes had.
Hahaha!!!
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SIX:
And he was just putting them all into the big dump truck that was driving around with him. Boy, would I have been mad at myself if I missed that opportunity.
Yeah. No kidding¡
Do you get the idea he was picking up house and garage debris too?
In any case, it sounds like a well- coordinated response.
I still can't imagine a storm that fierce. I've never experienced anything like that. It almost sounds ominous.
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SIX:
How on earth did you fill up three 95 gallon bins without any storms that you're screaming about???? Is that lawn clippings too???
Oh gosh no, no lawn clippings. Sorry to say I'm catching up on months and years of yardwork. My front yard has been in the process of being re-landscaped to a low water version since before I got sick, and without a lawn weeds just take off and grow pretty tall. Bc around here, if you water it, it grows 24/7/364.
I'm sure my neighbors hate me.
But, to be fair to me, half of that was pine needles. The Canary Island pines that I planted cast the shade I was hoping for, I just didn't realize they came with so many needles!
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With how slow I'm moving these days, I'm just imagining you out there like Betty White on crack running circles around me.
Hahaha! I wish!
You accomplish more in an hour than I do in a week!
I'm following along with your home repair and renovation and decluttering and landscaping and emergency preparation and honestly I'm in awe.
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