Fall clean-up!!

We just did a second round of fall clean up in the yard yesterday, since the weather was fairly decent.  About 3 weeks ago, we raked the whole yard.  Those of you who have seen our yard know what a big task that was.  I figure the yard could use a good raking at least once a year.  So our leaves and dead grass were raked to the curb for pick up, and the gutters were cleaned out.  Of course, the trees can not cooperate, so there is more raking/blowing done every week  We get curbside pick up for about 5 weeks, on our garbage day.  So, if they are going to pick up once a week, we will get leaves out there once a week.

Since yesterday was a beautiful fall day, we decided to do one more major clean up.  I used the leaf blower on the yard, and Brian cleaned out the gutter (which appear to be full again today-darn wind).  We even pruned a few of our bushes and burned the remaining brush in the fire pit, so no critters would make a home there over the winter.  

There is one more week of leaf collection after tomorrow, but we will have to see what kind of weather next weekend brings.  It is not looking promising right now.