Leaf Pile

The most annoying part of Autumn is raking up the leaves. I never did it growing up. We didn't have any trees in our back yard and any leaves in the front yard would blow away onto someone else's lawn so it wasn't our problem. Well, we have tons of trees in our yard, so we have to do the work to clean it up.

I had had enough of doing it myself, and I happen to have a large 13 year old boy who lives with me, so guess who's helping this year?

I had gotten a second rake earlier, so there was no excuse! Ledger and I both trapesed out to the front yard and got to work making a pile. Fortunately, our town comes around and sucks up any leaf piles by the road, so all we had to do was pile it up out there. It took a lot of work and effort, but we made a huge pile! It didn't take long for the neighbor's kids to decide that all our effort would be the perfect pile to jump in. Ledger honestly felt the same and he joined them jumping in the leaf piles and having a ton of fun!

It just took a little work to get the leaves back into the pile after they had exhausted themselves real good. Ledger said he had a surprisingly good time helping out. Great, because the trees still have about half their leaves left- we are definitely going to have to come out and do it once or twice again before winter!

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