It wasn't enough to shut down the city - although I did seem some plows in search of accumulation yesterday afternoon. It was enough to collapse the as-yet-still-assembled sukkah. I had planned to take the thing down Monday evening, but events, as they say, overcame. So of course, it finally collapsed in a heap of plastic, PVC, and tinsel. The truly amazing part is that the whole thing didn't just turn into a giant Pick-Up-Stix project when I backed the Jeep away from it this morning. Trees still dry from the summer went down, too. There was one blocking Ogden at Speer this morning.
It never stuck to the streets, but this morning, the clouds burned off to show white foothills for the first time this year. That's starting to melt already, too, but it's a warning that Winter's here, and he means business.
Naturally, the sodding is just going to have to wait until Spring, if it happens at all. I may still rent a tiller on Sunday and try to till, seed, and weed-kill the back yard, and see what comes up in April.
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First snow of the season is always lovely. In September of 1996 we had a monster snow storm which downed a lot of tree branches as they were still full of leaves (we were still in Denver). We lost power for a couple of days and it was brrrrrrrrr cold!
My opinion on the lawn would be to not worry about it too much for now and put down a good weed-n feed in the spring.
I was out weeding crabgrass out of St. Augustine yesterday - as it's near the end of the growing season here. What a PIB! But I'll apply something to nip it in the bud in the spring as well. :)
Posted by: Elizabeth | October 19, 2006 10:10 AM