Leaves for the ring road or moat road
Willem and I filled the cube sized trailer with leaves in town. We were just heading to a large group of heavy plastic bags when the compost truck came along. NOOOOOO. So we hurried over and posessed the pile while he drove on by!
I have no idea how much the trailer holds when it's full with several layers of large bags of leaves in it. We've been using a sheet of plywood over all the bags, then strapping it down when we drive home. So much better. Before, it was such a lot of work watching for airborne leaf bags on the highway!
One time when I was out with Alida, a bag fell off the back. But as I sat on the shoulder and looked at it on the crest of a hill, I said, "the best thing we can do now is to just pretend we don't know." I didn't want to turn around on the road, nor try to park on the crest of a hill to retreive it. The wind blew it into the ditch. Gone the way of some unsecured storage bins as well!
We drove home and because the trailer was behind his car, I dropped him off at my car and continued on home with the trailer. I was going to use this load of leaves to cover the greenhouse area, but realized they would be quite heavy to carry so far.
So I took them past Fiddlehead Pond, past Willem's leaf bag-covered garden, to the grass free areas along the moat road. I didn't want to stand or sit around and wait for Willem, so I began unhooking the winch straps over the plywood lid.
He hadn't come when I started rolling big bags off the top and flinging them onto the peat earth. I covered the area, then moved a bit forward and did the same thing. Then I moved forward past a clump of canary grass sod and put the rest of them on there. There were about 30 bags on the garden-to-be and the boards almost all put back in the trailer when Willem arrived, having checked in with Dale the carpenter.
I have no idea how much the trailer holds when it's full with several layers of large bags of leaves in it. We've been using a sheet of plywood over all the bags, then strapping it down when we drive home. So much better. Before, it was such a lot of work watching for airborne leaf bags on the highway!
One time when I was out with Alida, a bag fell off the back. But as I sat on the shoulder and looked at it on the crest of a hill, I said, "the best thing we can do now is to just pretend we don't know." I didn't want to turn around on the road, nor try to park on the crest of a hill to retreive it. The wind blew it into the ditch. Gone the way of some unsecured storage bins as well!
We drove home and because the trailer was behind his car, I dropped him off at my car and continued on home with the trailer. I was going to use this load of leaves to cover the greenhouse area, but realized they would be quite heavy to carry so far.
So I took them past Fiddlehead Pond, past Willem's leaf bag-covered garden, to the grass free areas along the moat road. I didn't want to stand or sit around and wait for Willem, so I began unhooking the winch straps over the plywood lid.
He hadn't come when I started rolling big bags off the top and flinging them onto the peat earth. I covered the area, then moved a bit forward and did the same thing. Then I moved forward past a clump of canary grass sod and put the rest of them on there. There were about 30 bags on the garden-to-be and the boards almost all put back in the trailer when Willem arrived, having checked in with Dale the carpenter.