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November 05, 2004
Leafing
A friend in NYC sounded puzzled today when I said I'd been out raking leaves. Downstate, one can get a lawn service to do such things. In Earlville, one can get a neighborhood kid, a leaf blower, or a rake. C'est ça. No neighborhood kids have been pounding on our door; the Treasured Partner is mortally opposed to leaf blowers; and hence today, while lake effect snow swirled around me in a high wind, I raked.
And all those leaves have to be carted to the compost pile. We could just shove them to the curb and the village truck would come vacuum them up, but then they'd have gone to waste and would not be the fertilizer for the 2006 garden. And if they're just left on the lawn, they kill same.
Sheer logic drives me out there each fall, while I freeze, curse, and plot to buy a leaf blower next year, hide it, and only use it whilst TP is off the property. . . . .
Posted by senioritis at November 5, 2004 06:29 PM