@shahnm I’M ALL FOR THAT!!! BATTERIES LAST SO MUCH LONGER IN THE REFRIGERATOR!!! BETTER YET, PUT THEM IN A GLACIER 20 FEET AWAY AND THEY WILL BE RIGHT WHERE YOU NEED THEM IN A COUPLE OF YEARS!!! !!!
@AlexJones But Rachel, my glacier is much closer than that. Are you saying I need to find a different glacier a few feet farther away?? That seems unnecessarily complicated.
@ruouttaurmind found a corded mower (probably from the 70s) in perfect condition. Really loved it but then bought an Ego battery mower and am so impressed. Now have a number of other tools including their snowblower. Terrible how I will never need to run thru gas, clean mufflers and deal with so much noise!
@ruouttaurmind I would have agreed having tried another brand but things are really changing, imo. I can get two lawn cuts out of one charge of this mowers battery and since I have the snowblowers batteries I plop a charged battery in while fast charging the spent battery. There are even pro lawn companies using these machines.
Of course I still have my corded mower in storage. That thing is a beast!
Watching the neighbors kids do all those things for peanuts. Yes, I really pay the neighbors kids peanuts; M&M peanuts when I am really feeling generous.
Slowly, carefully, turning the clocks back and savoring every recovered minute of the hour so cruelly and uselessly ripped away from the fabric of time last spring …
Blowing out the garden hoses with compressed air before the first hard freeze. It made more sense when we were doing serious gardening and had an extensive drip system. Now we just have regular garden hoses. I suppose I could just coil the hoses in a way that forces them to drain, but it’s so much more fun to blast it out with compressed air.
“Dead limb” at our house usually means a couple hundred pounds of walnut lying across the driveway, which in turn means I get to play with the chainsaw. I’m generally okay with that.
@dannybeans I once rented a house with 3 walnut trees. Had to be careful about stains on the rugs from the bottom of my feet… but free walnuts was nice (although I was in competition with the squirrels for them).
@dannybeans@Kidsandliz we have a big English walnut out front, and in September the squirrels go crazy with the ripening nuts, so anything underneath them get covered with all this crunched up walnut meat mixed with squirrel spit. It’s really gross and just stains the hell out of anything left under the tree.
i live in an apartment and also don’t really have much of a yard anyway. i still chose the dead flowers one tho because i am emptying out my vegetable pots & plants from the summer. they’re seven gallon fabric pots so rather than take them up and down three flights of stairs individually, i’ll toss them out the kitchen window when no one else is around and then go down and empty and collect the pots in one go. (plants have already been cut down and put in the garbage so it’s just dirt.)
my actual favorite bit about fall though is cooler weather and hockey season.
Splitting firewood. There’s something satisfying about smacking the chunk of log and seeing the kindling fly off, and the instant gratification of the growing woodpile.
Making sure the boiler, sprinkler system, spigots, hoses, etc. are ready for Winter (really, making sure that the people we pay to do these things have actually done them).
The landscaper we hired handles the stuff mentioned in the poll.
Taking down the spring/summer decor and the ornaments from Mom’s ornament trees and bringing out the fall decor and ornaments. She had stuff for every season, holiday, etc. We only do the seasons, and Halloween and Christmas with her treasures.
I’m not sure favorite is the right word. But we wouldn’t miss doing it.
Watching football…
It has to be done, so I volunteer.
Putting my batteries in the refrigerator.
Taking my batteries out of the refrigerator.
Putting my batteries in the refrigerator…
I could go on.
But you know the rest…
@shahnm Just remember the ancient addage:
“The man who takes his batteries out of the fridge too early, suffers early discharge”
@shahnm I’M ALL FOR THAT!!! BATTERIES LAST SO MUCH LONGER IN THE REFRIGERATOR!!! BETTER YET, PUT THEM IN A GLACIER 20 FEET AWAY AND THEY WILL BE RIGHT WHERE YOU NEED THEM IN A COUPLE OF YEARS!!! !!!
@AlexJones But Rachel, my glacier is much closer than that. Are you saying I need to find a different glacier a few feet farther away?? That seems unnecessarily complicated.
Napping
Why are any of these things listed as fun?
@tonylegrone
This poll won a mediocre contest.
Not saying the poll was, just the contest.
@jst1ofknd oh man. I wasn’t paying enough attention and missed out on that contest. I only have myself to blame.
@tonylegrone yea, there’s a reason they’re called chores, I am assuming the question is a sarcastic “favorite”
@tonylegrone
Don’t you go trying to take my job! It’s my fault for another (math) days!
@jst1ofknd I wouldn’t dream of it
My corded electric mower will never run out of gas dammit.
@ruouttaurmind
Sound like the opposite of a problem…
@DVDBZN @ruouttaurmind well you can’t cut your grass in a storm when the power goes out so that is a plus. Right? (snicker).
@ruouttaurmind found a corded mower (probably from the 70s) in perfect condition. Really loved it but then bought an Ego battery mower and am so impressed. Now have a number of other tools including their snowblower. Terrible how I will never need to run thru gas, clean mufflers and deal with so much noise!
@fjp999 I despise battery powered tools. They are never ready to work when I am, and always ready to take a break before me.
@ruouttaurmind I would have agreed having tried another brand but things are really changing, imo. I can get two lawn cuts out of one charge of this mowers battery and since I have the snowblowers batteries I plop a charged battery in while fast charging the spent battery. There are even pro lawn companies using these machines.
Of course I still have my corded mower in storage. That thing is a beast!
Watching the neighbors kids do all those things for peanuts. Yes, I really pay the neighbors kids peanuts; M&M peanuts when I am really feeling generous.
Slowly, carefully, turning the clocks back and savoring every recovered minute of the hour so cruelly and uselessly ripped away from the fabric of time last spring …
Not doing any of this crap because all the grass and leaves have been dead for years we no longer have “seasons.”
Blowing out the garden hoses with compressed air before the first hard freeze. It made more sense when we were doing serious gardening and had an extensive drip system. Now we just have regular garden hoses. I suppose I could just coil the hoses in a way that forces them to drain, but it’s so much more fun to blast it out with compressed air.
What about those of us who live in an apartment or a condo and don’t have to do any of these things?
“Dead limb” at our house usually means a couple hundred pounds of walnut lying across the driveway, which in turn means I get to play with the chainsaw. I’m generally okay with that.
@dannybeans I once rented a house with 3 walnut trees. Had to be careful about stains on the rugs from the bottom of my feet… but free walnuts was nice (although I was in competition with the squirrels for them).
@dannybeans @Kidsandliz we have a big English walnut out front, and in September the squirrels go crazy with the ripening nuts, so anything underneath them get covered with all this crunched up walnut meat mixed with squirrel spit. It’s really gross and just stains the hell out of anything left under the tree.
I think “favorite” should have been in quotation marks instead of “fall”.
i live in an apartment and also don’t really have much of a yard anyway. i still chose the dead flowers one tho because i am emptying out my vegetable pots & plants from the summer. they’re seven gallon fabric pots so rather than take them up and down three flights of stairs individually, i’ll toss them out the kitchen window when no one else is around and then go down and empty and collect the pots in one go. (plants have already been cut down and put in the garbage so it’s just dirt.)
my actual favorite bit about fall though is cooler weather and hockey season.
Can I say “none”? Is None an option?
Apartment Dweller, Suckas!!! But I like WATCHING people do all that.
Splitting firewood. There’s something satisfying about smacking the chunk of log and seeing the kindling fly off, and the instant gratification of the growing woodpile.
Reading a book, in the recliner, dog in my lap, sipping an adult beverage. Oh wait, that’s every day.
Making sure the boiler, sprinkler system, spigots, hoses, etc. are ready for Winter (really, making sure that the people we pay to do these things have actually done them).
The landscaper we hired handles the stuff mentioned in the poll.
Taking down the spring/summer decor and the ornaments from Mom’s ornament trees and bringing out the fall decor and ornaments. She had stuff for every season, holiday, etc. We only do the seasons, and Halloween and Christmas with her treasures.
I’m not sure favorite is the right word. But we wouldn’t miss doing it.