We got our first real frost on Tuesday night, and all the leaves on the front maple dropped the following morning. The above is the before picture. (You can see the slight furrow where the BF tried out the mulching function on our mower and decided that was a big, fat nope.)
So while we were out last night, we invested in the leaf blower that goes with out lawnmower battery (the Ego system). The leaf blower was in a set with the trimmer, which we’d been wanting to get anyway, so that was a good deal.
We dog sat for the BF’s younger brother this weekend. He decided to take a nap before leaving to fortify himself for Boston traffic. So his GF was awake on a lovely day after not much physical activity for the weekend, and practically begged us to let her help with the yard work. So between the blower, and seven shockingly easy tarp loads, we arrived at this:
Best year’s raking I’ve participated in in a very long time. I’m sure there’ll be a certain amount of clean up later, but that was 45 minutes well spent to get the majority of what we should see for the year. And I probably won’t feel like I got run over by a truck in the morning.
Here’s the new pile. It just took two tarp loads to top the actual pile. We’ll see how long it takes to compact things down enough that I can get it all in the chicken wire again. I mean, it’ll totally happen, even if it takes all winter.