Fall is living up to it’s name.\u00a0 Leaves are falling like snow.\u00a0 All it takes is a little puff of wind and the skies are full of yellow, red, orange, and brown leaves.\u00a0 It’s quite pretty but someone has to get them up.\u00a0 That someone is ME!!<\/p>\n
Thank goodness I have one of those attachments that goes on my riding mower that sucks the leaves up.\u00a0 The thought of raking and raking and raking just gives me a backache simply thinking of it.\u00a0 These things are great but one things for sure, you get dirtier than you ever did as a kid playing in the dirt.<\/p>\n
Another good thing about them is the mower actually chops the leaves up some and I then put them on my garden before I turn it under.\u00a0 That helps to feed the soil, keep it moist in the summer and is a great way to compost the leaves when you have as many as we do.\u00a0 I would guess there are about 25 trees in my yard so that’s a lot of leaves.<\/p>\n
I’m so glad we had 4 cut down and 16 topped so they aren’t producing as many leaves as they did before we had that done.\u00a0 I donated the wood from the trees to a local man that didn’t have any heat besides a wood stove and was quite poor.\u00a0 He came and picked up the wood and split it himself so all we had to do was pay someone to cut the trees down and top the rest.\u00a0 Between the tree guys and the guy we gave the wood to, we didn’t have to clean up anything.\u00a0 In fact, I bet the guy got enough wood to heat his house for 2 winters.\u00a0 I hope so anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fall is living up to it’s name.\u00a0 Leaves are falling like snow.\u00a0 All it takes is a little puff of wind and the skies are full of yellow, red, orange, and brown leaves.\u00a0 It’s quite pretty but someone has to get them up.\u00a0 That someone is ME!! Thank goodness I have one of those attachments … <\/p>\n