Falling leaf trees..........

When Leslie was in grade school (almost junior high) and we had been living in the duplex, she used to tell me "Mom I want to live in a house with falling leaf trees."

When we lived in our house on Willow before Kelly got sick we had trees but they were young and Leslie was too little to remember. Then we lived in that old house on Main after I sold our house and it had the huge trees that are on Main Street. But this was at such a time of change and so much was going on with Kelly that we didn't do much in or with the yard. Dad and Charles used to come and help me out with it. Then we moved into the duplex and it had two great big ol' Pine Trees.

So when I decided to buy the house next door to the duplex Leslie was quite excited because it had 2 Quakies and 1 big Maple tree in the front yard. In the back yard there is no trees but my neighbors Walnut tree is huge and 1/3rd of it hangs over into my yard.

So while Leslie still lived at home I think she helped with the "falling leaf trees" maybe twice. She told me when the girls were here a couple of Sundays ago helping me in the yard that she didn't help because she was a teenager and had other things to do. Yea, like sit in the house with her friends and watch me rake leaves. Really she did....but I still love her.

I do remember her and Jax when he was a baby raking leaves and taking pictures. Since then I always make it a point to have all the grandkids over when my "falling leaf trees" are losing their leaves so that we can play in them and take pictures and just have fun. Which we did a couple of Sundays ago (see previous post and pictures on FB)

The "falling leaf trees" in my front yard are all done losing their leaves. So today when I got home from work I got out my rake and raked them all to the curb so the city can come and vacuum them up. Hopefully before this storm blows in tomorrow or Thursday. It isn't hard to rake leaves just time consuming and every other year my Maple drops seed pods that are major pain to rake up. Yes, this is the year the seeds dropped. I couldn't find my gloves so now I have two big blisters on my right hand.

The walnut tree in the back has not finished dropping all it's leaves and as a bonus it also of course drops walnuts. The leaves are huge and easy to rake. The walnuts on the other hand are in the same class with the maple seeds.....a pain and they unfortunately drop EVERY year. So I still have the back yard to clean up but that will have to wait till this weekend after the storms go through. Hopefully I can find my gloves before then.