Note: It’s that busy time of year when Clif and I go around to various holiday fairs to sell our books. Therefore, until the new year, I will neither be reading blogs on the weekend nor commenting on those posts. It seems to me that those who post on the weekend also post during the week, which means I will be mostly keeping up with the comings and goings of blogging friends. Also, I am cutting back my own posting to once a week, on Mondays. After the new year, I am planning to resume Thankful Thursday posts.
Oh, Those Leaves
Right now the leaves are falling everywhere at our home by the edge of the woods.
On our front steps,
on the chairs on the patio,
and on the table, too.
A couple of afternoons each week are devoted to leaf cleaning.
Clif takes out our trusty battery-powered lawn mower that crunches and sucks up the leaves.
Here’s the yard before lawn-mower Clif has done his thing.
Then along comes Clif.
Et Voilà! Progress has been made.
At least for a day or so.
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For some silly fun, here are a couple of videos in honor of this delicious, spooky time of year.
First, from Saturday Night Live, the one and only David S. Pumpkins.
Second, “This Is Halloween” from the inimitable Tim Burton and The Nightmare before Christmas.
A happy Halloween to you all!
Notes From the Hinterland 
hmmmm, Leaf Cliff looks a lot like Snow Cliff. 🙂
Quite the resemblance! 😉
Have you seen the new movie Saturday Night? It’s about the first episode of SNL, in 1975. It’s a scripted movie, not a doc. It’s fabulous. Super-entertaining from beginning to end.
We did see the movie Saturday Night, and I loved it and its rushing energy. So much fun.
Fall’s my very favorite time of year, but not so much the cleanup part. I have to admit to enjoying our new apartment life, enjoying all the leaves, but not taking them! I hope you have enjoyable and successful times at the holiday fairs, Laurie.
Yes, I am sure it is great not to have to worry about clean-up. You can just enjoy the beauty. Thanks for the good wishes.
Lawnmowers are the best way to clean up the yard (and are mulch/compost makers, too)!
Have a spooktacular Halloween and I hope your fall sales fairs are very successful. 🤩
They certainly are! Glad to have it. And thanks for the good wishes.
Good luck for the fairs. I’m thinking there may be a market for Clif action figures…Snow Gauge Clif, Leaf Mower Clif…the possibilities are endless😁
Oh, too funny! I laughed out loud when I read your comment. I wonder if we could come up with such a figure.
The leaves fell…the leaves were swept up.
Autumn looks so lovely at your edge of the woods, Laurie! Wishing you a happy upcoming November!
I hope that you sell sackfuls of books.
A Happy Halloween to you and Clif, too!
Here is one my my favorite artists and song about falling leaves. She left this earth way too early.
Many thanks!
Beautiful song! And, yes, she left this earth way too early. Heartbreaking!
It’s raining leaves. We cleaned up last week knowing we were going to have wicked winds over the weekend. We now have a couple of Maples that have shed all their leaves which is a good thing. Our Ryobi battery mower does a good job picking up the leaves here too.
Yay for battery-powered mowers! Such an improvement over those horrible gasoline powered mowers.
Leaf season is upon us … and it appears Cliff can empty the bag into the woods. Good luck at the book fairs!
Thanks so much!
They are falling fast and furious! And where I live now, the wind takes them all away!
Awesome that Mother Nature is taking care of them.
Haven’t raked a leaf in two years!
Oh, you lucky thing!
Starngely, I was thinking “Where is leaf raking Clif?” when he appeared!
There’s nothing more pleasant than a walk in the woods through fallen leaves; I love the scent and the sound. Getting them off the lawn is reasonable, but even there they’re quite pretty!
I, too, love the way their wonderful nutty smell.
These leaves are so beautiful! I love to look at them, smell them, and even rake them, if need be. We mulch some of them during the mowing, so they end up fertilizing the lawn, but if there are too many, they have to be recycled.
Have fun at the upcoming fairs. I hope you will sell many books! 📚
I love the smell, too. Intoxicating!
Those mowers work well at the task…for a while…until the deluge hits.
So true. But Clif has done a great job of keeping on top of it.
Kudos for Clif…not a fun job.
Nope, but one that he is getting used to. Once upon a time, I did all the raking.
Lovely photographs. May you sell lots of book leaves
Many thanks!
Those of us who live in woods have a lot of clearing up to do at this time of year. May you have good sales at the fairs and a lot of fun in the process. I shall look forward to whatever you find time to write.
Many thanks! Yes, lots to do when you live on the edge of the woods.
I hope you do well at the holiday fairs, Laurie. Good luck!
Thanks so much!
We’ll miss you, Laurie, but I hope you have much success with book sales. We’re having a lot of those tumbling leaves, too, thanks to some gusty winds. In fact, it’s so dry right now that we’re under a fire alert. No outdoor burning here for a while until we get rain and the wind dies down. It’s always something, right?
Many thanks! I will be posting on Mondays, just not on Thursdays. And, yes, it’s always something.
Like rain. Like golden coins. Like Philip Pullman’s idea of Dust.
I hope the holiday fairs work out, and you sell lots of books.
Thanks so much! Onward, ho.
Happy Halloween and good luck at the holiday fairs!!🎃
Hey, I hope the book sales go well!
Your garden reminds me of one garden we had where we had 3 horse chestnut trees and a lime tree. Plus we lived next door to a house with a tree lined drive. Every autumn our garden was a carpet of leaves and your picture of mowing up the leaves brought back a lot of memories. Hubby used to do the same then we either burnt them or tried to compost.
Many thanks!
The leaves are a lot of work, but the lawn mower sure makes it easier.
I’d love to have all those leaves!! I raked some leaves this past weekend to use as a blanket for my garlic. I could have used more 😉 I hope the fair was successful.
Many thanks! A most successful fair.