Why is the snow-covered front yard texturized this way?
IN THE COMMENTS: David Wharton said:
Christmas trees. I think that Meade is collecting them from neighbors for mulch.Meade has dragged 7 Christmas trees onto our lot. He says:
I'll lop the branches and use them as mulch over plants I want to protect from frost heaving in early spring. So the idea is to keep the cold in when the warm spring sun and thaw hit.What is this strange charity of Meade's? Building campfires for neighbors and strangers... taking in their abandoned Christmas trees...
The tree stems will make good kindling for starting fires out on Picnic Point. Meanwhile, the dozen or so trees will make great cover for the intrepid birds who stay with us all winter long.
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i see two possibilities:
1) meade is dragging zeus around the yard.
2) zeus is dragging meade around the yard.
Dragging the Christmas tree around?
Wind.
The top left photo seems to reveal that someone tried to carve a vagi...I mean vulva in your yard.
Alpine skiers are using your yard for training.
Alien crop/snow circles....
or what dhagood said.
It's the ghost of Georgia O'Keeffe
Occam's Razor says it must be aliens leaving a cryptic message.
Couldn't be the wind. Way too farfetched.
Cross-country skiers leaving the house for the trail.
Swamp gas, obviously.
Hot-blooded moles tunneling through...
Anonymous got it. You can see the tree branch remnants in the blow up.
Damn kids!
Fracking
My lawn has looked like that when taking out a desiccated Christmas tree. I wonder ...
Snow Snakes?
Christmas trees. I think that Meade is collecting them from neighbors for mulch.
I usually blame ninjas.
Sastrugi?
Anonymous said...
Dragging the Christmas tree around?
That's the one Im going with.
Painted by Edvard Munch?
Meade is collecting them from neighbors for mulch.
That, or he is developing hoarding tendencies. Next comes the "hard stuff" - all the neighbors garbage piled up in the yard.
I vote for Christmas tree dragging. I won't even venture a guess why.
Sasquatch has been riding a bicycle in your yard.
Japanese sand gardening gnomes, confused and a long way from home.
Meade is learning how to draw like Paul Klee in the landscape.
Edger Allan Poe wrote about snow phenomena like this, "striped snow" was one of them, IIRC, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym about a journey to the South Pole.
Cross country skies and a christmas tree, twice.
David Wharton said...
"Christmas trees. I think that Meade is collecting them from neighbors for mulch."
Winner!
How many Christmas trees did you have, anyway?
Shoot....I just saw this and was going to suggest that Meade was dragging Ann around the yard.
"dragging Christmas trees"? Can't be! Where are the footprints! Gotta be an alien visitor!
@Meade, how do you mulch them? Do you have a machine?
"how do you mulch them? Do you have a machine?"
My question also... must be nice to have the neighborhood wood chipper. Never know when they'll come in handy.
A herd of arctic octopi came by.
Scott Walker's secret routers?
Sorry, I was channeling Garage for a moment...
It's a snow job!
Greenpeace came to your yard and was careful to leave no trace.
"Ann Althouse said...
David Wharton said...
"Christmas trees. I think that Meade is collecting them from neighbors for mulch."
Winner!"
Did he get a wood chipper for Christmas?
Let's not job Big Mike who was actually the first to say Christmas trees. So congrats to David Warton and Big Mike (along with all you other jokers).
I'll lop the branches and use them as mulch over plants I want to protect from frost heaving in early spring. So the idea is to keep the cold in when the warm spring sun and thaw hit.
The tree stems will make good kindling for starting fires out on Picnic Point. Meanwhile, the dozen or so trees will make great cover for the intrepid birds who stay with us all winter long.
My 2w LED garage light seems to have trouble in the cold. Another mystery.
They're supposed to work down to absolute zero.
My 2w LED garage light seems to have trouble in the cold. Another mystery.
They're supposed to work down to absolute zero.
You've been sold a bill of goods, my friend. In the name of progress.
wind
Flying Spaghetti Monster. But it's too cold to fly so the FSM has to drag it's benevolent self around by it's noodley appendages, the tracks of which you see in the yard. Blessed art thou among gender-neutral pronouns! -CP
Around here, people sometimes tie a cinderblock or something to them and leave them on the ice, and come back in the summer to the spot to fish for crappies.
Mulch bad.
Hot air from lawyers?
"Meade said...
Let's not job Big Mike who was actually the first to say Christmas trees. So congrats to David Warton and Big Mike (along with all you other jokers).
I'll lop the branches and use them as mulch over plants I want to protect from frost heaving in early spring. So the idea is to keep the cold in when the warm spring sun and thaw hit.
The tree stems will make good kindling for starting fires out on Picnic Point. Meanwhile, the dozen or so trees will make great cover for the intrepid birds who stay with us all winter long."
Not mulch.
Around here, people sometimes tie a cinderblock or something to them and leave them on the ice, and come back in the summer to the spot to fish for crappies.
Tie a stopwatch to that block then take wagers on when it falls thru the ice and you have yourself an entrepreneurial venture.
@Meade, thanks.
"texturized": with condoms this is always for her pleasure.
I am Laslo.
Jane the Actuary said...
"dragging Christmas trees"? Can't be! Where are the footprints! Gotta be an alien visitor!
Jane, you drag the tree behind you. In the Midwest in winter, that is what is meant by "in drag."
Nice to get a mention by both Ann and Meade! Happy Epiphany, and good gardening.
"Draggin' The Line" by Tommy James (1970).
CO2.
The AGW crowd finally locates the missing positive feedback mechanism!!!
Not a moment too soon.
Has to be black helicopter traffic.
"Let's not job Big Mike who was actually the first to say Christmas trees. So congrats to David Warton and Big Mike (along with all you other jokers)."
You just jobbed anonymous. Look at the second comment.
The mystery is why Meadhouse not Meadehouse? Is the internet running out of "e"'s again? I remember the great e shortage of 2003 and will stock up if need be. Better late than never.
e's are created by the Fed in press reseases and recycled when your browser deletes temporary internet files.
The real danger is overproduction of e's. Soon buying a vowel would be hardly worth the trouble it takes. We'd wind up like Japan.
There is no e in anonymous.
Watch for crop circles this summer.
I used to steal bags of leaves my neighbors had raked from their yards. I composted them across an entire hillside behind my house, to eliminate the erosion there. 50 or more bags of leaves a year for 5 years produced a deep, rich humus where growth of trees from acorn to mighty oak was visible while watched.
Only one neighbor ever asked me if I'd like to eliminate the middleman by raking his yard. I gently refused his offer, saying that I appreciated his contribution to beautifying the neighborhood.
It's like judgment.
Now I find out what the Judge meant by "judgment."
"Like judgment" could be a thing. I know some persons on faceblook, and I like the idea of creating anxiety for them by asking themselves to consider how they might be considered judgmental, or Judged mental as it were, and why that might be reason enough to sit out the culture wars lest one becomes conservative, where all the fun resides.
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