The First Bag

Well, if you haven't noticed, there is a theme here. Never fear, the first bag of the season has now been documented. Many to follow, although I'll admit, the thought I had as I took this photo was a google search for "leaf removal..."

Back walk

Not to be all "all things are connected" or anything, but to that end...used the dirt from widening the front walkway project to fill in some of the hole left behind in the back yard from the sidewalk removal project there. Not enough stuff, there, but still working on it. Going to continue with my plan of letting the grass come back to the yard and hopefully also having things get a little more even with the levels of the yard there in back. Then I'll work on sorting out whats best for the walkway next spring...

Only two days later..

With what seemed to be a pretty big rain storm, and I suspect some wind through the night...the tree that was pretty much full on Wednesday was a lot more depleted come Friday am. The lawn is not even visible. Just wondering when someone is going to come take care of the raking for me.

Fall time photos

From atop the Dome on Wednesday...some quick changes coming...

Autumn Falls on the Dome....

Um, new interface means I cant seem to post multiple photos. Hold please.

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New Couch, although

I haven't actually got rid of the old one. It's awfully comfortable. But this was the one I've been looking to get for several months, so when I came across one on CL for about half the price of a new one, not to mention the whole not having to go all the way to Ikea thing...

...also, note Rusty's replacement....sigh...

Animal House

Shot from this summer that I hadn't posted yet...

Upon return from VT, found a grocery cart in my front yard. Someone had obviously taken a page out of Animal House when returning someone from a big night out with a little kart ride. I got a few funny looks when I walked back with it to return it to the grocery store.

Return to DIY

Put this (gutter guard...) up the other day in advance of the three-month Attack of the Leaves. Great to have so many trees of course, but the fall is ridiculous in terms of gutter clogging and the like...

Not DIY, rather, YDI

So after my back and arm and shoulder and hand-breaking experience of crushing all the sidewalk out back and the front walkway as well, and then subesquently taking all that debris out back (out of sight, etc...), I really knew that I wanted to end my hands-on relationship with said pile of debris.

So when a guy stopped to see if I had anything I might want hauled away....I was glad to part with some dough to see this pile go.

Not Do It Your Self, but rather, You Do It.

Pile Before

The result of the sidewalk removal....

New Find In Clearydome-land

It's like the farmers market, all week long. Just about 1 mile (its right at the turn-around point for me on my runs down the Monon) south of the Clearydome is Locally Grown Gardens Market. Run by ROn Harris, who is a Culinary Institute of America grad who was a fancy-pants chef in big-city environs like NYC, but somehow ended up back at home in Indy. The location, which I failed to photo, was an abandoned gas station before he took it on...Heres to the harvest!

How I got it back to the rental place

Since I only had Trusty (with the red sweede being parked in NH and of course Rusty having departed...), I had to use him to get the jackhammer back.

Since I made a big grease stain on my ex's car when I picked it up (she doesn't read this, I don't think...although shout out here to Danish dish soap VEL--I used it to get that grease out of the upholstery...VEL, is there nothing it can't do?), I shrewdly decided to protect the seats with a sail that I got at a garage sale last spring.

Fletch-Fest

I was back in town in time to attend the most brilliantly-conceived party, Fletch Fest 2009 to raise funds for Juvenile Diabetes. They had a screening of the worlds best movie, and some folks dressed up as characters from the movie and there was even a Fletch trivia contest. I got nine of ten right; I suspect the person who got them all right googled the answers; I mean, who could possibly know THAT MUCH about one movie??

Thanks to Sarah (who is a Fletch fan, but still seemed bemused that someone would go to the party just to Support the Fletch Cause), for putting it all together.

Famos Amos

Even though I hadn't been in the area for over a month, when I got back for my visit, I was in the local free bi-weekly paper, the Broad Ripple Gazette. It wasn't about the Dome or anything I'd actually done, it was just because I joined the Broad Ripple Village Association.

Now to figure out what to do...

....With the matching (see below) hole in my back yard.

Fun times

The jackhammer was very key to this program,although it was "fun" for about four minutes of the several hours I actually used it. Also, when I dropped it on my shin, that hurt. Still does, in fact.

Sorry, BTW, to my neighbors. I had ear plugs on, but you probably didn't...so sorry for the noise!

Back yard during

Same thing...on the back side

End, for now

Here is the newly-created hole in my front yard.

During

Mid-process. The front looked like it was going to be "easier," since a lot of the walkway was already broken up, but it wasn't as the concrete was very deep.

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Especially when things have been in place for a 100 years. And they are concrete.

My first weekend home in 10 weeks or so, and I decided to spend it sweating and generally trying to break my back and arms by breaking rocks all weekend long.


Here is the before/Front...

Looking up

As part of the "cool it now" program, changed the light to add a fan in the upstairs bedroom.

Grass Update

Quick shot of August grass...not perfect,but better than a hole in the ground...