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Some of them are with the other wee folk celebrating fall
posted by
Annicita
on October 24, 2015 at 11:55 AM
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Isn't it just like a Gnome to be lazy and not help at all. It is so beautiful out today and children are playing games in the yard below our balcony/deck. Such a lovely day and I'm being so useless. I even refused to go out for barbeque with company and company and his company. I still get nauseous with too much sensory stimulation.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 24, 2015 at 11:55 AM
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I could cry, all those lovely leaves so easy to compost a bit of wire netting and bundle them over.Sadly the leaves we have are walnut and they do not make good compost.
I hope you do not have a sore back tomorrow, want to take a bet?
posted by
C_C_T
on October 24, 2015 at 10:46 AM
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Maybe the gnomes could eat your leaves love. LOL.
posted by
BC-A
on October 24, 2015 at 10:43 AM
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Oh my, bad boy Graysome!....;)
When leaves start migrating inside from the porches, I know it's time to call the yard man. In my healthy, active days, I loved raking up huge piles and letting the kids jump in them and then try to bury me and each other with the remnants; the neighbors didn't always like this but they were fun times topped off with hot choc. and cookies. 
posted by
Katray2
on October 24, 2015 at 8:42 AM
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I let them mulch where they fall too. I can imagine how worried you were while trying to get Mr G. back into the house....
posted by
adnohr
on October 24, 2015 at 3:32 AM
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I enjoy raking leaves. It reminds me of days gone by when I would go to my maternal grandmother's house for the annual raking. I now live in her house and continued that tradition. However, time, money and environmental reasons caused me not to rake as much. I only rake the leaves closest to my house.
I see you had a question about what exactly snowballs are in my blog. They are also known as sno cones, a type of shaved ice. Here is the Wikipedia entry on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_cone
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on October 23, 2015 at 7:40 PM
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Kabu
I have minimal leaves and let them self-mulch like you describe. Most of my trees are evergreen with just the dead leaves being the issue; with the drought there have been plenty of those. We do get quite a few windy days, though, and my neighbor's trees are not all evergreen. Whoa! my TV just went out and I hear thunder....Patricia's effects are rolling in.
posted by
Krisles
on October 23, 2015 at 6:56 PM
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Kabuiepie-;)~
Thanks for sweeping the leaves love. Did some Gnomes help? Hmmm, didn't think so. LOL
posted by
WileyJohn
on October 23, 2015 at 6:12 PM
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Kabu
We used to burn the leaves and had a lot of fun doing it - no longer allowed, unfortunately...
posted by
Nautikos
on October 23, 2015 at 4:40 PM
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May Graysome needs to sit in time out for being sassy to his Mom. I love being out in the garden in the fall.
posted by
Justi
on October 23, 2015 at 2:42 PM
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Graysome is, at times, no help at all. I like the idea of letting the
leaves just mulch themselves in place, but with neighbors close enough to judge the appearance of my place and its affect on their property values, I have to bag 'em and haul 'em to the curb so the city can collect them.
posted by
Pat_B
on October 23, 2015 at 2:12 PM
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