Leave...Get Out A couple of weeks ago I was looking forward (in time, not in anticipation) to when I would have to rake the leaves. Nice Kate is very much in a family way at this point I knew I would be out there alone this year. So what to do?

Last year I semi-cheated by raking a large portion of my front yard leaves out into the street and letting the winds take them from my yard. Seeing how so many of my neighbor's leaves end up in mine I thought it not to unfair. That would help again but is not very neighborly year over year.

So I decided that I would get a bagger for my mower and see if I could leverage my current equipment. This would allow me to compact the leaves some before putting them in bags or the bin.

Kate was very pooh-pooh on the idea. She did that think that it would work very well.

I have here today to tell you that it works quite well. Sure there are some leaf particles that do not go into the bag and fall down into the lawn, but that is not too bad. If one wanted a second or third pass can be done and a lot of those bits get sucked up into the bag.

I may be spending more time but I am not working as hard. Now if I could only get both....  ¶ 19:25