I just want to let everyone know that I broke not one but two f-ing rakes today working on my yard and the nearly knee deep leaf piles…and there’s still tons more to rake.
I borrowed a seriously badass leaf blower (you know, the backpack kind so you can feel like one of the Ghostbusters), but it doesn’t make a dent in the leaf piles in the backyard that are ridiculously deep and soaking wet at the bottom…only the rake and my aching back can wrestle and wrangle those messes. I’m not an idiot: this is not my first leaf raking effort of the season, I just want to point that out lest some smartass tell me I should’ve been raking and managing the mess all along. It’s an ongoing saga. Bite me.
Spent close to 5 hours today working on leaves and I’m not done, but as I worked, I did have ample time to ponder surrounding my home in some kind of netting so that the leaves can’t fall in my yard next autumn. I also pondered having a tree service come in and remove all the trees, replacing them with plastic palm trees. Neither the netting nor the plastic tree thing seems reasonable, so maybe I’ll come up with something else during my next 5 hour stint out there in the fun park I know as LeafLand.