Day 287: Noo-noo time!

On Saturday, Exile #4 helped me with the raking by helping load the wagon up and then towing it to the pile by the road. Early this morning I saw what happens to the piles. The men from the town works department come along with a truck with a giant vacuum cleaner attachment and suck it up. Each season has its own surprises.

This evening was a pot-luck supper at the school for Pre-K thru 3rd Grade. A chance to meet other parents and see our children's work. In reality, a chance to watch our over-tired children get grumpy and wonder if we've reached the dreaded status of parents of the worst behaved children. In actual fact it was mostly fine and it was nice to have Exile #3 and Exile #4 show us around their classrooms and show us their work.

By now there are plenty of leaves on the grass again and still the trees seem to have their full plumage*. I think we will need a few more visits from the Noo-noo.


*I know - it's 'foliage' - if we'd once made pens from leaves, would the_exile be my nom-de-feuille?