Good enough

We had a pretty bloggable event here today. I expect that a sufficiently curious internet searcher would find some version of this photo and these events on at least three blogs.We are connoisseurs of leaf piles here and today's pile leaves us just a tiny bit disappointed. The problem is that the weather of late has featured pretty regular precipitation. The rain and snow and melting snow had a couple of effects. It kept us from getting the raking done earlier and it left the leaves still a bit wet. Wet leaves pack themselves down. Dry leaves fluff up and make a much more satisfying pile. The pile doesn't have the volume of some other years but we are all prepared to testify that the bulk is still there.

The job is done for another year. As usual, our clean up was not perfect. As usual, it was plenty good enough.

The day also featured our tech guru teaching us how to use the auto-timer function on our cameras, allowing us to have this swell photo of the entire raking crew.