Hello. We had a beautiful October here in Maine with daytime temps averaging still in the 70's and nights mostly around low 60's maybe into 50's a few times. The whole of next week will be in the low 60's to high 50's which may be close to normal maybe for this time of year. Anyways, I've still been cutting my lawn every week or so because the grass has been growing thicker and faster now that we're no longer in the 80's and 90's and summer is of course gone. Just today I cut my grass to about 2 3/4 inches on my LawnBoy mower. I'm thinking of dropping down to maybe the next setting which is 1 3/4 now that it's cooler and stuff and I'd also like to overseed and apply some more lime before winter. I've got some left over seed and just want to spread it and see if any takes hold, I could care less either way if nothing happens cause the lawn looks good to me now anyways. So is it ok to drop down to 1 3/4 inches for this time of year or should I just stay at 2 3/4?

I have 3" plastic pvc drainage pipe coming off my upper deck running to the side and with a 3" pvc elbow I can point it to a rain barrell 20 feet down. But that is boring.... I see cute little furry animals that are made to put at the end of a gutter down spout and I'm not looking for that. I would be attaching it to the vinyl on the house along side a downspout going to the rain barrel. I know I could just run the pipe into the down spout but again...boring. is there anything else. Thanks for any help.