For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 04, 2011

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    arye uygur  about 13 years ago

    The Patterson’s put their leaves in PLASTIC bags that take 10,000 years to decompose?? They should bury their leaves in their yard and let them decompose to benefit their soil.

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    kfccanada  about 13 years ago

    How do you know they aren’t paper bags? If you dig a hole in the lawn and bury them all in that one hole, you’ll only have one area of lawn that benefits. And…why would you dig up an established lawn?

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    slug_queen  about 13 years ago

    And this strip is what, 25, 30 years old? Plastic is what they had then.

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    millie p  about 13 years ago

    They had hessian bags too when this strip was written. They compost down very well, and don’t tear when they get wet.

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    Docmccoy  about 13 years ago

    Anybody here ever wonder what goes into making PAPER bags? You should look it up. What you find should shock you!

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    AntiqueBrenda56  about 13 years ago

    Maybe they should burn them instead! Nothing says autumn like the aroma of burning leaves!

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    psychlady  about 13 years ago

    You tell ’em, Michael!! That nasty leaf!!

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    gobblingup Premium Member about 13 years ago

    I’m sure it’ll listen to you just as well as you listen to your mom.

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    monkeyhead  about 13 years ago

    I use to laugh at my neighbors raking and bagging the leaves. I bought a mulcher mower. Turning fall, I just mow…my lawn thanks me by being the greenest one in the neighborhood come the next year.

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    masnadies  about 13 years ago

    We do the mulching thing, too…. but there are times I wish me and my kids could rake up leaves and jump in the piles a bit! I know my kids would whine, but I think they’d have that same (very short) feeling of accomplishment like Michael has here. And then maybe they’d understand why I hate stuff dropped on the floor right after cleaning it…

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    nancyroy2  about 13 years ago

    it’s like whean you clean the house and the kids mess it up as you go – so frustrtating!

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    dsom8  about 13 years ago

    @masnadies – Just curious why you can’t rake up a good pile and play in it, with no concern for how much you redistribute the leaves. Then just mulch away as usual.

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    Allan CB Premium Member about 13 years ago

    Maybe John went to 2011, and bought some bio-degradable composting bags, that only take a year or two because of whats in them, to decompose.

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    dsom8  about 13 years ago

    Also curious about how you other posters get an active link to another post – see Rasczak just about referencing @Nancy. See, I just get the ‘at’ sign in front of the name. “How’d you do that?!”

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    BlackHawkDon  about 13 years ago

    I put my leaves in plastic bags and in the spring I find they, the leaves, have turned into super dirt for any plant I choose. They require nothing but water to provide excellent growth. The plastic is also reusable if it is protected from UV light.

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    hedgehog182  about 13 years ago

    So THAT’s how trolls do it…

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    NEMO1967  about 13 years ago

    ahaha. mike say go up there!!!!!!!!!! funny……….

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    Yukoneric  about 13 years ago

    teb, I mulch mine with the mowers, also.

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    iced tea  about 13 years ago

    We used plastic bags to bag our leaves back in the 80s. What Michael can do with that lone leaf is take it and have Elly iron it between two sheets of waxed paper. He’ll have a preserved leaf from the fall of the 80s when he was what? 7 years old?

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    The Life I Draw Upon  about 13 years ago

    I’m with you Michael, especially when the neighbor’s leaves blow into the yard.

    When the world gives me leaves, I make compost. Nothing beats a garden fresh ripe tomato on a hamburger, and compost makes excellent vegetables. Mulching is a good idea, if you don’t have a garden.

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    comicnut4636  about 13 years ago

    " I talk to the leaves but,they don’t listen to me."

    I KNOW it’s supposed to be trees but ,THEY don’t listen to me either!!

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    UruzPhoenix  almost 13 years ago

    how about making it simple and just going and using the mulcher on the lawn mower…. I always use the mulcher setting on mine…

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    436rge  almost 13 years ago

    I’d like it if Lynn would just “once” a year do an update Sunday strip to let us know how things are doing with the family ’today" then continue on with the reruns.

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