Fall Yard Work
Greeting to all.
With Rebecca in Virginia for the next few weeks, we men decided to do some fall clean up of the yard. To be honest, the leaves littering the lawn had lost their luster, and Dad wanted them cleaned up; Rebecca being out of town had nothing to do with it.
We hired out the really difficult work of getting the leaves and debris out of the rocks and roof, but they are coming a few weeks from now. I could not abide the leaves there that long. So, that left us with rakes to drag leaves from the planting beds, the lawn mower suck the leaves from the lawn and our new toy to get the leaves out of everywhere else.
The day was warm and sunny. Xavier had stayed in the house all day. The idea of raking leaves got him excited to go outdoors. Nothing else did, and I tried on several occasions to get him to go outside, or to a park.
Xavier decided the sound of the leaf blower motor and its blown air were no longer scary. He wanted to blow leaves with it.
I let him blow leaves and pine needles, excited he had gotten over his fear of the machine. He found me a few minutes later to tell me the leaf blower was smoking. He was sensible enough to turn off the blower before coming to find me.
The two of us headed down to Home Depot and found a new blower (that device is too useful to be without). The new one is lighter, and Xavier can handle it better.
Xavier helped rake and move the piles of leaves into Mama's garden. He finished the work by blowing the remaining leaves from the sidewalks and patio. He left the work of rolling up the 100 foot cord to Dad.