The last couple of weekends have involved a lot of stuff with leaves. We have a large yard with a number of mature trees, and all the leaves have fallen!
Over Halloween weekend my nieces Rhea and Olivia (4 and 2) spent Friday night with us so my sister could go to the State XC tournament. We watched Backyardigans on Friday night, and this was about the calmest they were the whole time...
We had pancakes for breakfast on Saturday.
Then we walked to the poste office, and then played in the leaves. We raked up a little pile on the side of the house. Rhea loved it, but apparently Olivia doesn't like getting dirty, and never wanted to go in the pile of leaves.
Leaves are fun!!
We took the girls back to Pella in the evening, but dressed them up in their Halloweed costumes first. All the nieces went as "Barbie and the Three Muskateers."
We had pancakes for breakfast on Saturday.
Then we walked to the poste office, and then played in the leaves. We raked up a little pile on the side of the house. Rhea loved it, but apparently Olivia doesn't like getting dirty, and never wanted to go in the pile of leaves.
Leaves are fun!!
We took the girls back to Pella in the evening, but dressed them up in their Halloweed costumes first. All the nieces went as "Barbie and the Three Muskateers."
This past weekend, we watched the Iowa football game on Saturday (first loss of the season), then burned a large pile of leaves. We still had a humongous pile of leaves next to the house, another huge pile on the other side of the sidewalk, and another huge one by the street. On Sunday we borrow a truck and after 4 loads had the pile next to the house gone. We aren't quite sure when or if we will be getting rid of the rest of the leaves.
3 comments:
I think that is wonderful that you have your nieces over to stay sometimes. That is something special that they will remember and love their whole lives. That is so neat.
All organic matter produced in the yard must stay in the yard. You need to get one of those leaf shredder things that reduces 10 bags of leaves to one bag and then create a collection area for them to decay so you have rich leaf mold for next year's vegetable garden. Tsk tsk, wasting gasoline to haul away leaves! :)
Jana, much as I totally love your suggestion, Scott is not quite ready for that yet. We don't have a veggie garden (yet) and don't have a compost pile (yet). We did mow the rest of the leaves, but there were just so many!
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