Leaves are my enemy. Three hours it took me to subdue and surmount the nefarious foliage lying in my front yard. Three hours and all the rogue leaves, having severed themselves forever from their mother oaks, were apprehended and placed in bags from whence they shall never escape. Mwahahahaha!

I'm exhausted. I was helped a great deal by the Boy Next Door, who has in his possession a vacuum-like-thing that is instrumental in taking into custody heretical dissenters such as these. This Magical Contraption can only be obtained by making a pilgrimage to Ace Hardware and doing homage to "Lou" who sits away up high on Mt. Cash Register. Oh! glorious mountain with your strange and luminous symbols! Lou! Behold! See how his bedraggl'd beard sits slipshod on that pasty visage! Oh! Lou, take these gifts and grant unto me that which I ask!