Day 3.324: Leaving it late

It's three weeks since we had our first snow. That's not particularly unusual or noteworthy really, but the last time the town made it round to collect our leaves was before that.

Since then we have raked the majority of our leaves (maybe as much as 1/3 had gone in previous collections) and at one point I had the grass almost perfectly leaf-free. Then came the wind and blew them right back over the front yard! On Sunday, Exile #2 raked again, then on Monday they didn't come again. Today we had high winds forecast again, so it was with much joy that we saw the collection truck coming along this morning before I left for work. With lots of rain as well as the wind on the way, we are very pleased to be saying goodbye to these leaves. It's like an early Christmas present!