Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 09, 2020

Hey, it’s worth a shot.

LOL, Gonna need a bigger moat

Duraflame makes leaf logs?

One of the rare JJ toons that gave me a full on belly laugh.

Better hope a big wind doesn’t come along.

We’ve been under a burn ban two weeks now. Besides, leaves stink!

Hey, just a few handfuls that fit in the pot?

I don’t know how healthy it was to breathe in, but I remember from around 40 years ago, a delightful aroma to my schnozz.

burnt leaves stink, unless they’re the “medicinal” kind.

I think I’ll leave now.

I don’t know if I’ve ever lived where it was legal to burn leaves. In any case I’ve never seen it.

Are they burning leaves, next to a pile of dry leaves?? Madness…

When I was a kid in Ohio everybody burned their leaves.

Some people just made a big pile…the neighbor’s kids roasted hot dogs and marshmallows over theirs.

But my Dad didn’t think that was safe.

We had a special metal can, fastened in place, in the back yard.

I remember it looking rusty… maybe a little bigger than a trash can, and it may have had a round opening on top with a flat lid.

Dad was always trying to burn the leaves before it rained, and swearing if they got wet.

I don’t remember a bad smell… I liked it.

But that may depend on what kind of leaves…

or on whether you’re fifty or eight.

Thats gonna take a loooong time

Better leaf well enough alone!

Really eco-conscious, you guys.

For many years our county seat has had a ban on burning leaves. You can bag them in paper yard bags and they city will pick them up. All yard waste is taken to a composting facility next to the county dump. Also, if you just rake them to the curb, a truck with a huge vacuum apparatus would suck them up and take them to the same facility.

OMG I caught up I am really on today!!!!!! Oh JJ I started at the first one and even commented on a bunch of oldies. Love your strip. Now I’ll rest my eyes until tomorrow.

I keep smelling skunk on the dog walks, but I never see any. I wonder why? Not.

I know of someone who burned his own house down doing something like this.

I always enjoyed the smell of burning leaves in the fall growing up in Michigan

On the leaf burning thing…..seems like my house was always downwind. And my neighbors always burned leaves on a warm day when our windows were open. All our drapes, towels, and clothes stunk like smoke afterwards. So, not all leaf burning memories are pleasant.

Can’t be worse than California.

the smell of burning leaves gives me a headache – i rather dread this time of year, except it’s my favorite weather-wise.

Poof

I never understood why people go through all of the effort to rake leaves into piles to burn or set out at the curb. It is a lot less work to grind them up with the lawn mower. Two or three passes with the mower set up to mulch and they are ground in to dust. First pass is with the mower deck set high so the leaves will get into the mower and get broken up. Subsequent passes can be done at the normal height and they are turned into dust. That leaf dust feeds the lawn in the spring and it has never choked my lawn.

My neighbors yard and my yard are about the same size and get a similar coating of leaves every fall. One morning several years ago my neighbor and his teen age kids were out raking the leaves in their yard on to tarps to drag them to the curb. They started working on their leaves before me. I got out my mower and in about two hours there was no sign of leaves left in my yard. At that point my neighbor and his kids were half way done with their backyard. I heard one of the kids ask their father if they could use the lawn mower like the “old” neighbor so they can be done faster. I heard him tell his son go ahead and do the front yard with the mower all by him self. The boy was done in less than an hour, and it looked great, while his father and siblings were sill working on the backyard. After that I noticed his siblings quit. About an hour later my neighbor was out there mulching the remaining leaves with his mower and was done in short order.

Similarly my daughter and her husband were complaining about all the leaves in their yard and how much work it took to rake them up. I told them to mulch them with the mower. He did not believe me. I texted him photos of my yard one morning showing him all the leaves. I mulched them and texted him photos of a leaf free yard two hours later. He quickly changed his mind and mowed his leaves and was done in a fraction of the time.

https://www.treehugger.com/skip-rake-and-leave-leaves-healthier-greener-yard-4858786 Please DON’T rake the leaves.

Not a bad idea, but it would take about 2 months, 24/7 to burn all my 2 acres of leaves.

Help Mother Nature (and us) and get rid of the leaves the old fashioned way…..

One whiff of wood smoke or burning leaves, and my whole head stops up.

Pollutes the air and starves your lawn of food.

My wife tried this with old paid bills and bank statements.

As a child I always loved the smell of burning leaves.

Worth a try.

I would come in from outside and my mother would have a fit. You smell like smoke! (From my Dad burning leaves). They both smoked like crazy, so I never noticed smoke much until the 70s when cigarettes and leaf burning were banned. Now it makes me physically ill.

In the 60s in Missouri there was no recycling so we had a barrel we burned trash in. Burning paper not as pleasant as firewood but it wasn’t close to any house – big yard.

Burning leaves….- takes time and effort to gather the leaves- takes away valuable nutrients for the soil- takes away valuable protection for small animals - takes away isolation against the cold (for the plants and animals)- is a fire hazard - pollutes the air

So… save yourself time and effort, and simply leave the leaves lie on the ground. Mulch them if you want, or don’t even do that.

Mmmmm…another sign of the seasons changing in the Midwest! I have a friend that sends me a small box to burn out here in AZ, and I love her for that!!