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Poll: Raking Style

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Mermaid

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For those of you in Northern climes, it's leaf falling time! So what do you do with the tons of leaves that drop all over your yard and driveway?

Do you ignore them until the last one has fallen off the tree?

OR

Do you do a little bit each weekend so your yard looks neat and tidy all fall?


The fate of my driveway depends on your opinion! I can't get the enthusiasm up to start any raking, so I've decided to go with popular opinion. :biggrin: Until you all answer, I'm going with path #1.... :oops:

Who rakes and who blows?


Oh, and one more thing. Who will still admit to jumping in a huge pile of leaves?
 
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Oh definetly number 1. I can say that though because I live out in the country with no close neighbors, so nobody cares what my yard looks like. Thank goodness. And yes, when I was little I always loved to jump in a good pile of leave. I guess if I raked them now, I would still love it!!!
 
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Our house doesn't have many mature trees (newer neighborhood) so we don't have to worry about it much. Our lake house has way too many trees so the raking and burning of leaves is a CHORE!!!! we usually do half in the fall and the rest in the spring when we open the house for the summer. It is a couple weekends of solid work!!!! :eek: but I kind of like it....I know, its weird :roll:
 
You're suppose to have leaves in your yard at least for a while. IT'S FALL! That's part of fall. :D

When we lived in a Delaware neighborhood years ago the little old man down the street would practically catch the leaves as they fell from his trees! It was a riot. You could look up & down the block and see this patch of green stand out amongst the other leaf-littered yards! :rolling: (I swear you'ld never see a leaf in his yard.)

We rake some, deposit some in flower beds, let some blow into neighbor's yard, and use the mulching mower over remaining ones.
 
Thats so funny about your neighbor!!! I have one just like that< LARRY, he has the most perfect lawn and flowers. He will suck-up every single leaf that falls in his yard....I mean those leaves dont have a prayer!!!!! :floor:
 
Well, it being Colorado, we had three inches of snow last week, so a few branches dropped, but not that many leaves yet. Today it is 73 and sunny.
With any luck, the leaves will not drop until after we leave on the 20th.

I usually rake a bit here and there, try to keep things tidy.

Oh yes: there is a special place reserved in the 9th circle of Hell for all Leaf Blower Owners. :razz:
 
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Well, it being Colorado, we had three inches of snow last week, so a few branches dropped, but not that many leaves yet. Today it is 73 and sunny.
With any luck, the leaves will not drop until after we leave on the 20th.

I usually rake a bit here and there, try to keep things tidy.

Oh yes: there is a special place reserved in the 9th circle of Hell for all Leaf Blower Owners. :razz:
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Ah yes, especially the ones who go out on Saturday morning and make a racket with their leaf blowers! They go way to the END of that 9th Circle. :bang:
 
Mermaid said:
For those of you in Northern climes, it's leaf falling time! So what do you do with the tons of leaves that drop all over your yard and driveway?

Do you ignore them until the last one has fallen off the tree?

OR

Do you do a little bit each weekend so your yard looks neat and tidy all fall?


The fate of my driveway depends on your opinion! I can't get the enthusiasm up to start any raking, so I've decided to go with popular opinion. :biggrin: Until you all answer, I'm going with path #1.... :oops:

Who rakes and who blows?


Oh, and one more thing. Who will still admit to jumping in a huge pile of leaves?
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"WHO BLOWS?"....I love you Mermaid...that is a serving on a silver platter! Monica L. comes to mind! I agree about those leaf blowers...can't they put a muffler on those things? Or maybe because of the situation we are in as an oil crazy nation, ban them and bring back the broom!!!!
 
Raking and mowing are pointless pursuits that should be eliminated completely. Don't we have enough to take care of INSIDE the house?
 
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