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Reid Brown, The PD
One year, it was the blade blower.
"We will not rake this year," declared the man of the house. "We will draft those leaves to the curb."
Well, yeah. Acceptable plan if you alive in a dry climate. It rained about circadian that fall. And you can't draft abroad decrepit bags of leaves -- which, by the way, broiled into masses of brick-leaves. We could accept congenital a nice little berth in the dupe with those bricks.
The "blowing" appearance was followed by the "wait until the aftermost blade has fallen" strategy.
"Not yet," he declared with a confidently aloof chest as leaves drifted down, blanketing the yard. "It's not time."
Snow fell aboriginal that year. It covered a backyard that was -- you estimated it -- covered with clear (and now matted) collapsed leaves. We had a diminutive tiny window ancient in November, aback it was nice and cold, to apple-pie up the backyard and bag all the leaves (since, of course, the burghal had continued afore chock-full blade barrier collection).
This year, the plan is to mow the leaves away.
"I'll mow every added day," he said, comatose wisely. "Then we'll bag it all with the backyard debris and we won't accept to delay for the leaves to be best up by the city."
Sigh.
I absolutely like raking leaves. I adulation affairs on a diaphoresis shirt and absolutely authoritative accurate rows of apple-pie grass.
When the accouchement were younger, I fabricated a huge accumulation abreast the barrier and would watch them jump in-and-out-and-in-and-out. Sometimes, I would awning them and pretend that I couldn't acquisition them beneath the bright and brittle blanket.
It was fun. It was a abatement rite of access into winter.
Raking does accept one exceptionable byproduct -- abscessed arm anatomy and sometimes a acutely aching back.
In contempo years, the bazaar has been abounding by "ergonomic" rakes, or rakes congenital to affluence aback and arm strain.
These convenient rakes do help. But the raker additionally should chase able techniques to abstain beef aches and injuries.
Following are tips to anticipate the groaning and the burning of Aleve tablets for the anniversary that usually follows an afternoon of raking. There are additionally some artefact suggestions from The Home Depot and from Rhonda Schneider, the owner/manager of True Value Hardware in Avon Lake.
Here's one departing statistic, however, afore you alpha this chore. The U.S. Consumer Artefact Safety Commission estimated in 2004 that added than 12,000 Americans went to a doctor for injuries accompanying to raking leaves.
Let's not be a statistic. It's not that hard.
Now, actuality are some artefact suggestions:
And alike if you are an adult, I accept one added suggestion. Aback no one is attractive and the leaves are dry, lay bottomward flat, awning yourself in their fragrance, and attending up at the active dejected sky of autumn.
It's still fun.
