In which I talk about nothing important
I’m a glutton for punishment, and went ahead and signed up for my 3rd yr in a row for NaBloPoMo. I may drop out early, I may skip a day here and there, and I might not cross the finish line for the first time, but it’s the effort that counts isn’t it. 
What’s NaBloPoMo? It’s a promise to blog every.single.day. in the month of November, started by a great woman named Eden 3 yrs ago. All you have to do is post something at least once a day. Substance is not required, so here goes!
The other day as I was driving home from work, I saw a man raking leaves and bagging them into giant paper yard waste bags (there were at least 20 of them already full). I was feeling quite happy that we didn’t live in an older house anymore. The only real tree we have now is a little tiny red cherry tree (not bing cherry, darn!) that’s about 6 feet tall and produces very little leaves on the ground. At our old house we had a gazillion trees and even had one with locust beans that would fall every single autumn. It’s a job that we would have absolutely no time for right now. We might end up being one of those annoying neighbors who leave their leaves on the ground until the first snow, and just let the snow buries it hoping it would decompose over the course of winter. Naturally most of the would blow and spread throughout the whole neighborhood.
Truthfully? I don’t think we could actually do that.
Are you an incessantly busy garden keeper who mow every other day, or one who would finally gets going with the mowing because you’re afraid your lawn is feeling left out since all the other lawns are all groomed? I would say we’re kinda in the middle, but leans toward the latter slightly.
Never mind mowing. Snow is coming soon!
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My post yesterday is password protected. If you’re a regular reader and would like to read my ‘enlightened post’ about Election 2008, please send me a note / comment / email. I just didn’t want it to be out there since this blog is directly linked from our business’ website.
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I need to rake. I need to mow. And, I never seem to have the time for either.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I haven’t raked this year and I don’t know if I am going to. Chris hangs head in shame. Our new neighbors were out today with their leaf blower. Maybe I would go our if I had a leaf blower. Now that looks like fun.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:23 am
welcome back to nablopomo. I’m doing it again this year, but I’ve become quite addicted to my blogging/journaling… probably to the point where I annoy my regular readers with so many posts in a day. But, hey! I have no one but my plants to talk to at the end of the day. Maybe I should get a dog.
You’re lucky with the limited trees. I blew out my mom’s gutters last night and they were thick. She’s been bagging leaves like there’s no tomorrow. It’s insane.