Leaves

Leaves, I spent most of the afternoon sucking them up and mulching them in my blower/mulcher. It's a cool machine. I love my yard except at this time of the year. We have a bunch of trees down our north property line. We have a total of 13 trees in our yard. It looks absolutely great in the spring and summer and if we put lights in some of the trees, awesome at Christmas but this is the time of year that I wish we didn't have trees. I had to empty my mulcher bag 8 times today and I am not even close to having the yard cleaned up. I have filled the garbage can (after putting a HUGE bag of leaves in the can to get emptied last night) and we might have enough room to put our regular garbage there once the leaves settle. I guess I am getting old because it doesn't seem so long ago that yard clean up was no big deal. My sweet wife has been helping. Bless her heart. I don't know if I could do what I do without her help. The leaves are fun to pile up and then to jump into as well. I see the flit across the yard, driven by the wind. I wish the wind would take them to the street... When we first moved into our home and for the next 5-6 years, we could blow them across into the empty fields that bordered our house. Now there are homes and no place to put them. We have to pick them up. When you get a house, if you are thinking about planting trees, do it. They are beautiful and they have leaves.