Recurring Themes

Have you been reading my blog lately? There are a few recurring themes running through it. Several come to mind: parking spaces, Quebec and importing cars (think paperwork hell), cats/kittens and leaves.

Yes, leaves. I now understand why Fall is called Fall. Leaves fall. Lots of em, lots of em at one time, especially if the wind is blowing (add in a little rain and its a downpour of leaves).

Every couple days, I force someone to do something to the leaves. Not all of the leaves, just some of them. I tend to focus on the front yard because the leaves have a bad habit of sitting on the driveway as well as the yard. Once the driveway is covered (and this takes about 5 minutes of slight wind and rain), I find it difficult to back out of the driveway. How can you back out of a driveway you can't see??

So Matthew and I have been raking and bagging the leaves in the front yard, Thomas has been blowing the back yard (get those pesky leaves off the new grass). Did you notice that I didn't say anything about bagging them in the back yard? We did the entire backyard once or twice and decided to wait until all the leaves fell. I am not sure that was a good idea as now we have Mount Everest of leaves back there. We bagged about 8 very large bags (think BIG plastic lawn leaf bags and add a bit more) the other day. Guess what, you can't tell we did a thing. But isn't it nice that God made the leaves to match KC?

Guess our new hobby is bagging leaves. The idea here is to get them out of the back yard before the snow comes. Shall we take odds on whether we will get it done? (well, we know that once Larry gets in the back yard, it will be done in a day-and I will get to hear about it with sore muscles from everyone) Or maybe we can guess when the first real snow will fall?