With fall now completely in swing and the days getting shorter and the afternoons/evenings darker, many eyes turn toward home maintenance in the shorter and shorter window you have to get after the fallen leaves.
This is your yearly warning to watch those leaves!
All the colors are pretty on the tree but treacherous where they fall.
Why?
Some leaves are slippery and when you put slippery on top of slippery, falls can result.
With falls, come the fractures.
Or someone climbs up a ladder to clear their gutters,
You know what happens next?
Gravity proves how heartless it is. Gravity will always win.
Don’t even get me started about water.
Because you know what happens when you add water to slippery right?
If it is above freezing you get an even more slippery surface.
If it is below freezing you get ice on top of slippery.
Slippery cubed.
Be careful when doing yard work at all times but especially in the fall.
Be careful of the drifts of fallen leaves.
I’ll be back to warn of ice when it is time.
For now, beware the fallen leaves.
