11-09-2026 — Windy Leaves

Howdy all. The last couple of days were quite chilly and windy (and wet!!).

This was yesterday morning. Winds peaked over 35 mph. Today they are letting up, but expected to pick up this week, as temps drop again and possible snow happens?

Weaver’s Lawn Service will be doing the fall cleanup this coming Friday. If you remember, I posted photos showing the blanket of leaves in the yard a couple days ago. Well, the winds came in from every which direction, and now it isn’t a carpet so much, as wind rows of leaves in spots, and clear ground in others.

Out front, they decided to pile up in front of the entrances to the house. This is the garage door on the end of the driveway. A lovely foot and a half high row about 3 feet across. The front door stoop is also buried in leaves at the moment.

This is a shot from the outbuilding’s security camera. Two days ago, there was no grass to be seen, and the garden bed area in front of the garage, also had a nice layer. The winds blew those off and into piles here and there.

Mostly, the tarp is clear now. And the leaves are towards the back and left of the yard.

The neighbor’s trees are emptying quickly. At the moment, his leaves are leaving my yard, towards his. Or, piling up around structures like the outbuilding.

In other areas of life, and update or two.

My dental caps should get installed on Thursday. And, the dentist sent me another freaking invoice this last week for $55 more to cover some X-rays and such. Dental insurance is completely drained for the year. Ouch.. I’m trying to get a summary total from the dentist and oral surgeon, for my out of pocket costs this year. I’ll need that for tax purposes. I doubt that I’ll get to use them as federal deductions, but maybe it will cut back on state income tax?

On a brighter note, I got this email message from Giant Eagle yesterday.

I’ll likely do their “donate to hunger bank” option again this year. I’ve done that 3 of the 4 years I managed to “earn” the bird. When I shopped last week, after checking out, I was like $4 short of the total needed by the 8th. So, I went back into the frozen food aisle and bought Kitty and I some air fryer chicken wings. That put me over the amount.

The turkeys they have are at least 10 pound, and up to around 20 pounds. Too much for me and Kitty, but great for a family in need. It will go to the Cleveland area food bank.

And as another positive, I received my $300 debit card from Kinetic for signing up for their internet. You may recall that I cut my monthly phone/TV/internet costs by around $220 by dumping Spectrum and AT&T air internet, and using Kinetic/T-Mobile as my providers. I kept my AT&T wireless plans for phone/watch. There were some initial costs to add a Ubiquity Uniti device to allow for fail over from Kinetic to T-Mobile when needed. That has worked great. Not once have I been without internet since then. When Eero updates their software, Kinetic drops, and T-Mobile handles the traffic without me noticing. I usually find out when I see a text message pushed to me saying the Eero was updated.

I’d guess I’m already past the pay-back period for the change. And the $300 “digital” card has been added to my PayPal account so I can use it easily on my next purchase.

Of course, none of the financial gains come close to covering the Dental out lays.

One last item that may end up being reported soon. Bambu Labs recently released their H3C 3D printer. While I think it is great, even at its $2500 price tag, it is also huge, compared to the other printers I have. I love the idea of having almost no wasted material (poop) and 9 nozzles available to super fast color changes during printing, even if I don’t need that many colors, or to print things that big.

They should be releasing a P3C version soon. It is “only” 7 nozzles — shoot, 5 would be fine for me. Black/White/Red/Yellow/Blue — however, having another slot available for support material (that breaks away cleanly), and one for perhaps a gray, would be even better. And the P3C is guessed to be the same size of 256×256×256 as my existing printers. And guesstimates are a price of $1500. If so, I will find a place to donate / give my existing setups. The P1S and X1C are still considered good machines for both printer farms and 3D printer individuals just getting into the game.

Don’t be surprised if a new printer is in my future to help me Enjoy Life