I LIKE LEAF. BLOWERS !!!!!!! I find great satisfaction in blowing a mess of leaves off my lanai or lawn. It is almost as enjoyable as power washing the lanai.
I know you're thinking, "Is she NUTS????" Probably ! But II feel very young and productive doing both those tasks. (Although I usually make more of a mess than there was when I started. I was one of those kids who ALWAYS jumped into a pile of leaves. Much to the chagrin of my dad and our neighbors.) To be quite clear, I HATE raking leaves. But with a leaf blower I will spend hours out side. Squirrels and bunnies beware !
My first leaf blower was one that Husband and I bought when we bought our house on Long Island. We had a decent size front and side lawn that would be totally covered with leaves once September arrived. Husband was a creature of habit and would only use a rake to gather leaves. (He also had the belief that if God put the leaves there God could clean them off. The same went for snow.). But then guilt would raise its ugly head and the entire family was enlisted to RAKE LEAVES. We HATED it !!!! The kids would disappear within seconds of Husbands announcement that "today we ALL rake leaves". I would attempt to make it a game but the kids were too smart for that. Finally I woke up and bought a leaf blower. SO much better !!!!!
We left the leaf blower with the house when we moved from NY. to FL because we were moving into a community that. provided lawn service. Once a week there would be an invasion of Guatemalans racing around everyone property cutting lawns and blowing leaves. When Husband died and I moved into a condo and met The Man I started traveling north to MI in. the summer. In MI we live on a farm that has lots of trees but because no one cares, no one rakes leaves. So why does The Man have THREE leaf blowers? (Haven't figured that one out yet.). When we arrived at the farm each year I checked out the property and figured out where my leaf blowing skills were needed. It keeps me busy most of the summer. The MI leaf blowers are large and heavy so I have to pace myself. I do enjoy it.
This year because of my heart surgery I remained in Florida for the entire summer while The Man returned to the farm. He misses me. Awwwwww. How sweet. I will be traveling up there in a few weeks to experience my FIRST winter in Northern MI. (Yes I am actually looking forward to spending the holidays up North.). But back to the leaf blower. When I returned home after 3 weeks in the hospital I realized my "garden" on the lanai was OUT OF CONTROL !! Some sort of weed had invaded everything. My climbing, flowering plant by the door was dead and there were leaves EVERYWHERE. Being 3 weeks out of the hospital there was NO WAY I was going to do any gardening. I could barely stand on my own no less rake leaves. I blocked it out of my mind and went on my merry way to rrcovery, which included a LOT of naps.
Fast forward to about a week ago when I realized I was no longer exhausted and I was able to do just about anything. That was when my Amazon account went through the roof. I bought an electric scrubber for the bathroom showers. I bought an electric can opener. I bought a reading light for over my bed AND most importantly, I bought a LEAF BLOWER. Even though I live in a community that provides lawn service I have a very large lanai that, even though it is completely screened in, fills with leaves. Some blow in from outside when I leave the door open but most of them come from the various plants that I have growing in my garden. (Inside on 2 sides of the screened in lanai there is a 2 foot wide section of dirt that can be used for planting. It doesn't sound like much but there is probably about 50 feet of soil in which I have experimented with over the 9 years we have lived here. ). Sadly none of my experiments were successful. And so I have a lovely border around my Lani filled with weeds.
But now, when I return to. FL in February when it hopefully will be cooler I. can pull weeds and blow them into the trash with my handy dandy. leaf blower.
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