Is anyone else still raking leaves?

[Planogirl]

I have raked enough leaves this season to create twenty trees. The odd thing is that we only have two.

I just looked outside and the ground is once again covered with leaves. It's been windy so I'm not surprised. The trees still have some leaves though. Maybe our neighbors are dumping their leaves in our yard late at night.

I really should rake this afternoon before I go out of town but then again if I'm not here, I can't see them. Hmmmm...

 

[ziggystardust]

the way our house is situated we get everyone's leaves. We have one tree on the apron and we have a TON of leaves every year. I think the yard guys cleaned up the last of them a week or 2 ago

 

[Planogirl]

The trouble is that I'm my own yard guy. Oh well, it has to end!

 

[escape]

Speaking of....

My husband is outside right now taking care of the leaves in our yard. He has a mulching device on the lawnmower so he just goes over the leaves with that. Much easier than raking.

 

[kpm76]

Well, we would be had it not snowed....unfortunately we have a ton of trees and therefore lots and lots of leaves.....we were not done getting them all up at the beginning of December but it snowed so it's a lost cause now.....we raked quite a few this year though.....

 

[golfgal]

We might have to if all our snow melts. It has been in the mid 40's for the past two days and it is going fast! We are supposed to get an inch of snow tonight, hopefully. We have had a lot of snow this month and it would be a bummer not to have it on Christmas.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Leaves long gone, now just snow for the next 3 or 4 months.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Raking leaves? Try shovling snow!

 

[Towncrier]

We raked up the last of our leaves just before the first major snowfall. They are still nicely piled up along the street, covered with a few inches of snow and probably killing the grass underneath. Oh the joys of a wooded lot.

 

[monarchsfan16]

We've got a foot of snow plus a couple inches of ice on the ground. There are plenty of leaves under there I'm sure. My guess (I was at school) is that my stepdad gave up after awhile and they're still under there.
The good news is I didn't rake any leaves this year College has its benefits. And even when I came home I didn't have to rake because I "forgot" my allergy medicine at school

 

[KathyFP]

if the snow or ice would ever melt

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

I should rake those things, but then again, can't they be mowed up with the new grass in the spring???

 

[dbarker]

We are just getting started.

 

[aprilgail2]

I get so ticked off with the leaf raking...I have NO trees yet I could rake up 15 bags of leaves in the fall from neighbors leaves blowing on my lawn....most of the time I wait for a windy day and rake them into the street and watch them blow on down the road!

 

[Miss Park Avenue]

Mine are still on my stupid tree!!! They will stay there all winter. I have a "flowering" dogwood. It used to have beautiful white flowers in the spring and turn a pretty (yellow...I think) color in the fall.

For the last two seasons, there were no white flowers in the spring. And in the fall, they turn wrinkly and brown and just die, right there on the tree. It's so ugly. Dumb tree.

 

[aDVCguy]

We have a Dogwood that retains a good 10% of it's
leaves right through winter! So, as far as raking...it
doesn't end 'til the new ones push off the old
somewhere around March!
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[Shutterbug]

Havent been able to rake leaves since November because the snow has covered the leaves.