Fabulous Fall

October is a very busy month for us.  It's football season, and this girl loves her some football.  I am especially fond of my Chippewas of CMU, although they have surprised me this year (not always good surprises).  EG is becoming quite the little football fan herself, which I am delighted about.  She declared at the last game we went to that it was the "BEST DAY EVER!"  That's my girl.

We have also been participating in other normal fall activities, cider and donuts, pumpkin patch parties, making applesauce, preparing for Halloween (more on that later) and raking leaves.  So.  Many.  Leaves.

I have learned a few things while raking leaves this year.

1.  It doesn't matter how many lawn and leaf bags you think will be plenty, you will always have more leaves than bags.  You can always use just one (or two) more bag(s).  In the country, you just blow the leaves into the field, or the woods, but in the city, you always run out of bags.



(the leaves left after the first time raking the yard and after bagging 6 bags of leaves, it took 10 more bags)

2.  The trees will mock you while you are raking by dropping leaves on your head or dropping them where you just raked with a loud thud.

3.  The wind will mock you by destroying your neat piles of leaves before you can bag them.  See also: helpful small children.

4.  If you want to show off that you actually got outside and raked leaves during the day while your husband was at work, the only evidence of such raking left when he arrives home will be the leaf bags by the side of the road.  Another example of the trees and wind (but probably not helpful small children) mocking you.

5.  One good frosty morning, followed by a windy day can completely cover your freshly raked ground with enough leaves to fill 12 more bags, but you will only have 11.

(the second pile of leaves after the frosty/windy day)

6.  Chickens are very intrigued by leaf piles (and what's underneath them), but not people raking.  They will sneak up behind you but if you turn toward them, they will run away and hide.

 

7.  Even if I have to rake leaves, fall is still the best time of year.