Really it’s a photo essay, as is probably already obvious.
So here I am all decked out in my late grandfather’s overalls, shirt, and gloves (and my grandmother’s socks), holding the gargantuan rake:
(I’m TOTALLY posting this picture on LDS Mingle. Or I would, if I had an account on LDS Mingle. Which I don’t.)
As you can see from the piles behind me in the picture above, I had already been doing what’s in the picture below for quite a while:
Then, the gathering and cramming into bags!
Can you tell where I’ve been?
Once one has bagged the leaves, one must carry the bags to a specified location:
Forty-three bags in all. Thirty-five from today; eight from yesterday.
My grandmother TOTALLY owes me. I mean, all she’s done is love me and help raise me for the past almost 34 years. And let me stay at her house and eat her food for free. And give me Christmas and birthday presents. And…