Nice site SG! I like the way you have it set up.
You talk about blowing leaves & I am sick of blowing snow!

This describes how winter is going here.

"I just got off the phone with friend in Northern Minnesota, and he said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature has dropped below zero and the north wind is increasing. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and b!tch about the cold.
He says that if this storm gets much worse, he may have to unlock the door and let her in!"