Leaves

Just a quick update.  I spent the last 2 days dealing with leaves and some other pre-winter things that need to be done around here since the weather was so good for it.

Got a late start recording today.

 

 

Episode Transcript

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In a world created by Mike Dell, I
guess you would call it Mike Dell's world.
And that's what it is called, Mike Dell's
world. Number four twenty one for 11/15/2025.
And, yeah, I got a late late start.
It's like 09:30PM
on the fifteenth,

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so we're back up to real time here.
Spent the last two days,
finishing up outdoor yard work.
It's been
unseasonably
warm and not rainy, not snowy, not anything
else around here, so
it was a great opportunity

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to get things done. So
yesterday, I spent,
all day,
Friday. Took day off work and spent all
day out at my mom's house,
getting
the leaves removed from around the house
and getting the tractor
mostly converted over to wintertime.

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Although,
I took it over to the John Deere
dealer, I'm gonna let them
do the pre winter checks, and then I'll,
get it all configured for snow removal. Hopefully,
won't need that anytime soon. Next week looks
like it's gonna be rainy and in the
forties, but, that's a whole lot better than

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it has been.
Standby.
Okay. There we go. Had a little break
in the action there. I might edit that
out. I might not.
Anyway,
so, yeah, I spent all day,
you know, on and off the tractor,
on and off the leaf blower,

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and got a good majority of the leaves
removed
around the house,
out at mom's and got the leaves
dumped out in the backfield
where where we can use them next spring
on the asparagus patch. So
it's,
so that was good.
And then,

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and at the same time, my brother-in-law
came up, and, he
he did our, front yard here at our
house.
And unbeknownst to me, I didn't know he
was coming up. But, anyway and then today,
he and I both spent
most of the day
moving leaves
in the backyard. So our we our leaf

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situation
is,
I would say,
80%
because there's still
a good 20 to 30% of the leaves
still up in the
oak trees, but those fall winter. So that's
kinda normal. So hopefully,
they don't make too much of a mess.
But, man, we got a lot of looft

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and got a five foot pile of leaves
over in the corner. We have a spot
in our yard where we
have brush and leaves and
it's just like one corner and we don't
worry about cleaning that out. No sense moving
the leaves anywhere. They all pack down
anyway.
You know, by next spring, it'll all be

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packed down by the snow
and, just
natural.
And did a few other little things,
I got some
landscaping
done, I guess would be the right term
for it, alongside
my office.
A little bit of a drainage problem, so
I dug
dug a bit of a hole and,

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and filled it full of
I was trying to get crushed gravel, but,
apparently,
none of the big box stores have that
anymore
this time of year, but I did find
some river stone. So
we got about 200 pounds of river stone,
and,
that should alleviate the drainage problem alongside my

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office here in the backyard.
In case you guys didn't know, my office
is a
11 by 11 on the outside, but 10
by 10 on the inside,
shed
structure
that is well insulated and heated and air
conditioned and
powered and, you know, just like another room,

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but, separate from the house, which is kinda
nice because
I can come out here even though there
might be crazy stuff going on in the
house and do a podcast or work
or play on the ham radios,
whatever.
And,
yeah. So
that's the story.
That's why I'm quite late,

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today on my NAPOD promo post,
but I'll get this,
sent up, as soon as I can.
And I'll I'm probably gonna record tomorrow's episode,
which will go out in the morning.
And this is gonna be all about radio
and,
radio
as far as, you know, radio stations here

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in Traverse City and
maybe some of the history of them and
all the stuff, but, we'll see.
And then, later on this month, I'm gonna
do one about ham radio. And I might
record that tomorrow morning. Not not the the
actual episode, but maybe some,
examples
of ham radio

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since there's
one
foot and a half away from the microphone.
So might be able to record some,
some ham radio conversation,
and,
that might be interesting. It might not, but,
hey. Gotta gotta put out content for Nippod
Pomo, and we are halfway done officially as

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of right now. Catch
me tomorrow.