Fall Fun

This weekend I spent what seemed like the majority of it raking leaves. Our backyard has two huge trees and a couple smaller ones...perfect for TPing right Graves, Lindsey's and Corders.

One of the trees is a maple tree that dropped some of the biggest leaves I've ever seen. Before I started raking you couldn't see our yard. It was completely covered with leaves.

I used our leaf blower to gather all the leaves into three piles. Each pile was at least three feet tall and ten feet in diameter. Lots of leaves!

After I got them all organized it hit me...I've got to dispose of them somehow. Bagging would take to long. As would the leaf blower that seconds as a mulcher.

So I did what any man would do, burn them in my wheel barrel.

After burning leaves for about two hours we barely made a dent in one of the piles. So we were on to plan two.

I would like to thank our neighbor Bob who gave me the great idea of running the lawn mower over the leaves. I questioned how you run a mower over such large piles of leaves but he assured me it'd work. So basically I was like a hungry, hungry hippo with my lawn mower.

Like magic the piles shrunk relatively fast. Kelly came through with the mulcher and cleaned up the tiny bits of leaves that remained. What we thought was going to be the longest afternoon of lawn work turned out to be a well spent beautiful fall day.
Ash