(That would be what Gavin says every time he sees leaves on the ground.)
Really, why?
“Because all the leaves fall off the trees!”
When we got home from the bus stop this morning I looked at the lawn and decided I really shouldn’t put off raking the leaves any longer. Nate’s been working too much, so isn’t able to do yard work. If it’s going to get done, I’d better do it. I told Gavin that I should rake before we went inside, he got so excited and asked if he could help with Saedi’s toy rake. I got out the broom and started sweeping off the driveway, when a truck pulled up to the house. It was the guy Nate had hired to clean out the gutters. He said I should wait to rake until he was done because some of the debris would likely fall onto the lawn and driveway. He said he would blow off the driveway and even offered to blow all the leaves into a pile for me. I told him he could if he wanted but then Gavin got so sad because he really wanted to rake the leaves! So, we went inside and had breakfast, watched cartoons and played while the guy cleaned the gutters. When he finished, he had blown the driveway and the flower beds, but left the lawn so Gavin could go out and rake. It was right about the babies naptime so I put them down for nap and went outside with Gavin. He had so much fun “helping” while I raked.
We did find a caterpiller though and he really liked that too.
The wildlife around here is fun to see. On the golf course I have seen a doe and two fawns running across the green. Driving in the neighborhood across the way we saw a fox run out of the trees, along the road for a few yards and then back into the trees.
We have a squirrel that has a borough in the retaining wall in our back yard. Gavin has named it Munchie, we feed it raw peanuts. We first saw it in the late spring/early summer, it was kind of fat with a really bushy tail. More recently we’ve seen two smaller squirrels with skinny tails coming and going from the borough. Munchie must have had babies. This is one of the smaller ones.
There’s also frogs.
We can hear them at night a lot, but we’ve seen a few during the day.
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