Leaf meh alone!

Perhaps the Fall posting should have come ahead of the Winter one, but in this state the weather is so fluid that it’s hard to tell just what season you’re in at any given moment.  With that in mind, let me offer up a few things to make the inevitable leaf clean-up more tolerable.  And less back-breaking, blister-forming, and allergy-inducing.

Rock & Roll ACE has rental lawn equipment – tillers, aerators and the like – which you can ‘borrow’ an hour at a time for the low price of $12.  In the stable of hp is the Husqvarna leaf vacuum – a handy implement for yard clean-up in the fall.

It won’t clean your yard like a Dyson does your home, but it will help pick up small twigs and even some pinecones and acorns and whatnot in addition to leaves.  It mulches that stuff down so that you have less bags to fill and have hauled away.  Bonus, right?

If you’ve got to do it manually I can’t recommend enough those goofy-looking toothy hand-paddle things (around $6).  And a lawn funnel (about $25).  Battling a paper bag makes me want to go Trix-zilla and crush things to fine powder instead of remembering how much more eco-friendly it is to NOT be running another small engine, and just enjoying the awesome thing known as Autumn in Nebraska.  Jumping into a pile of blower/vacs has none of the charm you might think it would. 

 

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