We have had much more impressive piles in other years but even so we all pronounce ourselves to be satisfied with this year's production.National blog every day for a month month begins in two days.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Leaf pick up
The city is divided into zones. The pick up schedule rotates through the various zones with each year bringing a different quadrant of the city on to the schedule for early leaf pick up. And so, even though the cottonwood still has lots of leaves, the apple tree hasn't dropped a single one and the weed maples are only starting to look like they may give up soon, despite still having plenty of leaves in the trees, today we assembled the well oiled machine and moved at least $30 worth of leaves out to the designated pick up area.
We have had much more impressive piles in other years but even so we all pronounce ourselves to be satisfied with this year's production.
National blog every day for a month month begins in two days.
We have had much more impressive piles in other years but even so we all pronounce ourselves to be satisfied with this year's production.National blog every day for a month month begins in two days.
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That's a nice pile of leaves. My trees, like many of yours, are not yet ready to give up their bounty ... and it's dangerously close to the first bizzard.
I see a lot of leaves still attached to branches in the photo. How do you determine the dollar value you assigned to the leaves? What you pay to have them picked up?
Leaf pick up is a city service but it is an opt-in city service. The fee assessed to me for picking up those leaves has risen gradually over the years to this year be $30. For me to get value from the service I need them to pick up at least $30 worth of leaves.
Considering that the alternative is bending over to pick them up and put them into bags I consider it fairly easy to get $30 worth of value out of leaf pick up. Take a look at that pile and imagine how many bags that would be.
$30? I think so. The well oiled machine all think so.
I haven't gotten my bill from Beaver Creek yet for my leaf pick up, but it will be way, way north of $30. Though to be fair, I didn't have to rake. (I don't have a well oiled machine, but I do have minions.)
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