Yesterday, Ted took the leaf blower in hand and cleared the front yard while I raked the leaves in the back yard. Ted hauled all the leaf piles to our brush pile area to be chipped and bagged.
Here’s my favorite guy cleaning up the front yard.
Look at all the leaves! And our trees aren’t even half bare yet! (Check out the trees in these pictures.)
Last year, Ted and I jumped into our leaf pile; this year, we weren’t even tempted. We’ve had so much rain in the last few days, there were more wet than dry leaves in the pile. We can both attest that wet leaves are heavier to move around than dry ones. While I was raking, I found a giant leaf.
My hand, giant leaf, and regular leaf. I have no idea which tree in the area produces the giant-sized leaf.
Today, Ted put all those leaves through his chipper, which grinds them into pieces that range from dust to one inch. Then he bagged them up for the lawn waste pickup tomorrow.
Ted and eight bags full. I hate to think how many bags it would have taken if the leaves weren’t chipped.
A job well done. . . . And a job to be repeated at least once, maybe twice more before our trees are finished dropping leaves.