--- i admit it ... i admit it ... i grew up with parents that wanted the leaves raked every other day !!! i was always saying to them --- "why rake the leaves so often when you KNOW the guy next door isnt gonna for a few weeks !!!!!---- and all his stupid ass leaves are just gonna blow on our property !!!!!

so here i am ... at 40 ... raking leaves and thinking about that !~!

isnt it just an odd reason to do manual labor???

You should burn them.

(The leaves that is )

My father was the same! He hated those pesky leaves on his lawn, and usually it was me who was sent out there to pick them all up. I think he was a little obsessed looking back. He'd be out there with the sprinkler at 11pm and would be out in a short sleeve polo shirt at 8am on a winter morning mowing. I'm turning into him too, all the eccentricities, the foibles, the peculiar mannerisms.



I was happy when the tree was chopped right down, but it was the back garden that took forever.

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When I was renting a tiny house from a Chinese family in Vancouver, their grandpa used to rake the leaves from my damn roof every morning around seven. Lovely to wake up to slow scratching sounds coming from everywhere and a toothless smile on the other side of the skylight window.

retina said:

we found out (after buying our first house, of course) that we both hate doing yardwork. so our next place will definitely be a townhouse!

good to hear some of ya have the same fall frustrations !!!

i was raking my lawn ... feverishly .... and then i got to the front --- realized my largest tree is still almost 95% green leaves !!! so i will be raking these damn things til February !!!



that had me in stiches !!!