Maybe I should have just done a nothing post.
My father instilled in me the "importance" of having a clean driveway during winter, a well cut lawn in summer and a leaf-less lawn in autumn.
I'm not saying my father caused my OCD tendencies, but he certainly didn't help them.
Moving five years ago has helped me greatly in at least one of those things. While our yard is so much smaller, I no longer cut the lawn and I'm ok with it. We outsource it.
Honestly, I'd do it if we had room in the garage FOR a lawn mower, but it just won't fit unless one of us doesn't get to park in said garage. So I no longer fret about lines and patterns and such.
The other two....well..............
The front yard is no problem now for leaves, since we had to have three huge trees taken down. The majority we get there are from neighboring trees. And it's also 20 feet from the house to the tree lawn where they get collected.
The back yard is teeny too, but with a lot more trees, plants, neighboring trees and I can't mention this enough: short shrubs that catch the majority of leaves at their base, making getting a rake in there impossible and a blower that will only loosen maybe 20%.
Our new noise reduction electric blower seems nice. I got to do the inaugural use. The battery lasted 14 minutes. 14 !!!!!!! It takes three times as long to charge for another 14.
Fuck That.
I ended up doing the back mostly by rake. Greater noise reduction, save my cursing.
Above was as good as it got and yes, those few leaves bother the ever loving fuck out of me.
The joke is: yesterday was to be the last leaf collection of the year - and they never showed. BUT, it also rained all yesterday, so now I have more leaves down than I did before clean up two days ago.
Bother.
I suppose if it's dry-ish enough tomorrow and they don't come at the crack of dawn, I can do yet another last clean up.
Other than that there is not much to be done. I'm gonna have to let it go.
Song by: John Paul White
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