It's a wet and windy November morning. Put on a HAZMAT suit, show up at my house at 8:15 and start up both leaf-blowers and the giant riding mower and attempt to blow leaves around that are wet and sticking to the pavement, the ground and each other. Begin with the neighbors' property on either side, leaving us for last (so I can relax to the high-pitched whine of the machines), and make sure you create big, muddy ruts all over our wet, soggy lawn that will be there until next fall. The entire procedure (which in drier weather would only take 30-40 minutes or so) should take 1.75 hours, nearly three times longer than usual, shattering any kind of peaceful morning rituals - including sleep.
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| Good Morning! Did I wake you? These leaves are more stubborn than usual... |
The grass hasn't grown much since the Yard Monkeys were here a couple of weeks ago because it's been frozen, thawed, snowed on and clobbered by wind and rain... and it's now mid-November, so it won't grow much more until April. And it's windy, so why do we need our leaves blown around, when they will blow right back? It's not like they're ever bagged up and removed... Oh, and make sure you blow them all into the runoff stream next to us so it will become even more clogged than it is now, since no one ever cleans it out. I think I will have to buy a rake and do it myself.
I know they have a job to do, but enough already... See you next year!
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