Ok, why? you might ask... WELL today we went for a short walk, it was clear out and a very hot -1 outside, so we decided to take advantage of the situation and make the best of it. Our plan was to come back and rake up our neighbours leaves. She has a very large maple tree and the leaves had covered her yard, as well as a good portion of our own. It would have been a glorious thing for our children of 4 and 5 to jump into. The leaves were dry, clean and pretty much the best you can ask for. We grabbed our rakes out of the shed and the children ran out ahead of us to get the party started...
My daughter yelled out..."WE CAN'T!" and when my wife and I turned the corner this is what we saw.
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In the short time we were gone someone had raked up all the leaves and already disposed of them. Even the ones in our yard. Of course many of you are thinking wow that is sooo nice of them, my nieghbours wouldn't do that. Well, yes, it is nice, but we don't mind the leaves. We were looking forward to this as a part of our day.
Sadest sight in the world...
That is a little disappointing, but they weren't in bags on the corner? I would have totally taken the bags gone in the back yard and built the most epic of all epic leaf piles, heated some apple cider and commenced to jumping!
ReplyDeleteSadly no, I even went back and checked, but someone (whoever cleaned them up I assume) had taken them all away. We have good relations with our neighbours so I am sure they wouldn't have minded if we dumped them all again...
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