WOW, when it rains it pours... leaves that is.
It has been a challenging week as the leaves are now falling at their fastest pace. This is complicated by the daily heavy rain and wind. It is making leaf pick up difficult and then when done, it is sometimes hard to tell if we were even at a site as the leaf drop covers up our clean up work within hours. As shown above, we cleaned up this property Monday afternoon and by mid-morning yesterday, there were as many leaves down as we had just picked up. It would be hard to believe today that we had visited and removed any leaves there or many of the properties that we have serviced earlier this week.
The good news is that this heavy leaf fall means that many trees will lose their leaves over the next week or so, and within a few weeks, many sites will stay clean after our leaf removal efforts. The bad news is that it will be very messy until then.
Be confident that we are being diligent right now visiting most properties weekly and removing the leaves on the most important areas and focusing on bulk removal. We don't worry too much on details until the leaves are all down as too detailed of cleanup is a waste of time and short lived while the leaves continue to fall.
LAWN MOWING ON HOLD
It has rained every day during the past 3 weeks and we have received nearly 8 inches of rain during that time.
That is more rain in 3 weeks than we have received in the prior 6 months. A lot of rain!
This time of year, we avoid mowing due to the soft, saturated conditions where mowing will likely cause damage. Lawns are getting a little bit shaggy but please be patient, once major leaf removal is complete and we get a stretch of dry weather, we will return to mowing. Likely sometime in December.
