Leaves

Well, the leaves have started to fall in earnest, and it's always a losing battle between gordon and the rake. This year, however, he's decided to bring in the heavy equipment: he hired a 'billy goat'. It's a clever machine that hoovers up the leaves, mulches them, and then spits them out in to a large sack (pic above of half of the yard hoovered up). The sack was then emptied in to the hired trailer for a quick, easy trip to the dump. We'll have to do it again at least twice more this year, as the leaves continue to fall off of our amazingly large tree, but it seems quite worth it compared to the many bin sacks we struggled to fill last autumn! And, the girls LOVED the fact that daddy's car was in the back garden!!