Ahhh Fall!
Multi-colored leaves.
A crisp breeze.
for fresh air and exercise.
Remember when you were a kid and your Mom and Dad would hand you a battered old rake and send you to the yard to tackle the leaves blanketing the lawn? We used to spend hours raking, forming blisters that would break and ooze on our pudgy little hands, as we made enormous piles. We'd jump in the damp leaf piles and then have to rake all over again so we could fill the black plastic bags. Then, carefully, we'd drag the bags all the way to the road, trying so hard not to tear a hole in them as we went. If we were lucky we got a quarter for each bag. Sweaty, sore, and smelling like musty autumn leaves, we'd collapse on the floor in the family room.
So where did I go wrong as a parent?
Is that ear protectors he is wearing or listening to music? What does one listen to when doing leaves?? "Leaving on a Jet Plane" Blowing in the Wind" ok so I am showing my age with these old ass songs but surely Lady Gaga has nothing to accompany leaf raking or blowing?!!
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