Owen in the leaves

Owen in the leaves, originally uploaded by badgergobadger.

Today was a raking day. I had to rake the leaves at my parent's house, then come home and rake my own leaves. Thank goodness for daylight's savings time, I needed all the time I could get. I was at my parent's house at 8:15 and didn't leave until after 11:00. They are out of town, so I was doing the job myself, and with the amount of leaves they had it was like I was actually raking a forest clean of leaves.

Raking at my house was a lot more fun, and easier. My wife was there to help, and as you can see the boys make any job easier.

In a strange way, I enjoy seeing a yard right after raking, still green and entirely devoid of leaves, while all the surrounding yards are still under a blanket of dead foliage. After that it was back to work, school work that is.