Annual Fall Saga

We love our yard, but the downside is the enormous number of leaves to be raked each fall. Our solution? Give a generous donation to the Ohio IVCF fall conference scholarship fund for WCF students--something we'd do anyhow and something many students need--and in return some of them will rake the leaves. We had to find a narrow window without rain or threatening snow this year. Tuesday night, as it got darker and darker, was it. Here are before, during and after shots.

I meant to add a picture of the hot chocolate I'd fixed for them. Oh, well. Five fellows and one gal got the whole yard done in just under an hour! No sign of the groundhog, but we did have at least one work horse. One of the fellows didn't drag the tarp to the front; he hoisted it on his shoulders and carried it (a companion coming along behind to hold the other end closed). The leaf truck should come Monday to vacuum up the piles in our neighborhood.