Raking Leaves

It use to be that when I raked leaves, I put them in BIG piles and then, out of no where, I'd hear the sound of one or more children crashing and vaporizing my piles. "Hey Dad, can you build it up again?" they would asked. Who was I to let them down. Sometimes, I would have to show them how to crash causing the biggest spread of leaves ever! What fun it was.

Now days raking the leaves means getting them out to the curb, just in time for leaf pickup and taking a couple of days easy to rehab. My guess is that someday, I will have grandchildren who will need to be shown the art of crashing and vaporizing the leaf piles.