...is that it has to be raked up eventually. This is a gorgeous little Japanese Maple tree in our backyard. We barely realized it was there this summer because it is buried beneath some random, huge hulk of a tree that literally overshadows the entire yard (no grass back there either). Anyway, these past couple weeks, the little Maple just popped with color. It's wonderful to look at, but we also came to the harsh realization of how time consuming it can be to clean it all up and dispose of it. [Tangent: Have I ever mentioned the the trash/refuse collection restrictions that are enforced in Livonia? Oh. my. gosh. The list of restrictions is like longer (and probably more boring) than the manuals I write for mainframe software at Compuware! Yard Debris has to be separated from regular trash and clearly marked in an appropriately sized bin. Leaves can be collected in paper bags, not plastic or in "windrows". The list goes on and on literally. I'll stop now.] So you can guess what we did this weekend. About 6 (paper, not plastic) bags later, we are hoping that the snow doesn't come down before the last of the leaves gets scooped up. But it might be nice to have a "white" Thanksgiving.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The Trouble With All Of This Lovliness...
...is that it has to be raked up eventually. This is a gorgeous little Japanese Maple tree in our backyard. We barely realized it was there this summer because it is buried beneath some random, huge hulk of a tree that literally overshadows the entire yard (no grass back there either). Anyway, these past couple weeks, the little Maple just popped with color. It's wonderful to look at, but we also came to the harsh realization of how time consuming it can be to clean it all up and dispose of it. [Tangent: Have I ever mentioned the the trash/refuse collection restrictions that are enforced in Livonia? Oh. my. gosh. The list of restrictions is like longer (and probably more boring) than the manuals I write for mainframe software at Compuware! Yard Debris has to be separated from regular trash and clearly marked in an appropriately sized bin. Leaves can be collected in paper bags, not plastic or in "windrows". The list goes on and on literally. I'll stop now.] So you can guess what we did this weekend. About 6 (paper, not plastic) bags later, we are hoping that the snow doesn't come down before the last of the leaves gets scooped up. But it might be nice to have a "white" Thanksgiving.
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Nice picture ! You are all getting very camera savvy. One nice thing about the Little Condo in the Big Woods is the no mowing, no raking, and no shoveling service ... all done by Juan and Julio ! Gracias !
Just be glad it wasn't Papa that wrote the community yard collection rule list - it'd have been tied with twine and double-bagged and maybe even repeated . . .
The leaf bagging process is arduous!
There is a fancy leaf blower that sucks up the leaves and mulches them for you. We discovered it the year before we moved to the land of no trees!
Post pics of that first snow, please!
I wanna hear about Disney already...GOSH! :)
But I do agree that the raking is a BUMMER! :)
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