Suddenly, It's Autumn

            This will be the best post ever, because it has two of my favorite things:  Peanuts and fall!

I love fall, even though it can be rather a pain.  Trees, clothed in golden glory one moment will be naked the next and leave you (pun!!!!) with rather a mess. 

The church I worked at this summer and into the fall had this problem in spades.  Their rather extensive grounds were basically groves of trees.  We had a rubbish heap behind the cemetery and the whole staff would frequently go outside to work on the leaf situation.  These are a few pictures from one day.  We would rake HUGE piles of leaves, transfer them to large tarps.  The tarps would become huge bags, loaded onto the back of truck, and carted off to the rubbish heap.  The result was every child's absolute dream: a gigantic, swallow-you-up pile of leaves. 

I might have dived off the back of the truck into the pile once or twice.  Or maybe three or four times.