Yesterday Mike and I tackled the leaves in our yard. Yes, we are a little behind getting them up this year but there are several reasons for that, let me explain...
Mike has been busy beyond belief at work for the past several weeks! They just don't seem to have compatent people working there and stuff just keeps going wrong! It has been very frustrating for him as well as for us since we aren't getting to see much of him. Pray that it will change soon and that he will get a little break over Christmas!
We did have all the leaves raked up for us once already. Mike's brother Mark and one of their friends, Ben, came over and got all the leaves up about a month ago. They put a HUGE pile up on the road for the city leave collectors to come get and our yard looked great for about 2 days - then more leaves started to fall.
It rained. About 2 weeks ago I raked the whole front yard to try to help Mike out since he was having to work so much. That Friday when he got home he raked the whole back yard and started bagging the leaves and then it got dark. So we had a yard full of leaf piles and planned on bagging them all on Sat. then it rained!
We went to GA. Last weekend we went to GA because the church we attended there was having the first service in the new building that they had started building while we were still there. We didn't get home until late Sunday night so nothing was done last weekend.
This week it rained a lot again and Mike worked a lot again.
No one raked the leaves out of the beds for several years before we lived here! The beds around our house are not the greatest and there were TONS of leaves in them. Mike raked them all out so we had a few extra million leaves to get along with the ones that were already in our trees.
We have A LOT of trees in our yard - which is great - but that means we have lots of leaves!
Here are our leaves...
36 bags FULL of TIGHTLY compressed leaves!!!
We wanted our neighbors to see how many leaves we had so we put them in a single file line in front of our house. Hopefully this way they will understand why we had leaves in our yard for so long! :) I was standing up against my neighbors house across the street and I still couldn't get all the bags in the picture, but you get the idea!
And here he is folks...my hard working husband who raked (the leaves that fell in the rain this week) and bagged the many piles of leaves we already had from 10:30 Saturday morning until 5 that evening! He even took me to dinner and Christmas shopping afterwards too!! He was a bit zoned during dinner and shopping though, but I understood.
GREAT NEWS!!! There are no more leaves on our trees so we won't have to rake again - until next year!
4 comments:
Oh my goodness Cassie! That IS a lot of leaves! I can't believe you were right down the road from us at your old church....we should have met at Bruster's. :o)
I bet it looks great!
Yeah we were! I will let you know next time we are down to visit!
yes, the yard does look so much better!
Holy cow that is a ton of leaves. Now I can appreciate it more after seeing the pictures. Good work Mike and Cassie!
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