Well the vast fall of leaves has started for Autumn. Each breeze brings new litters. We have a wind called Brian today.
Considering there were so many leaves around when we were kids as well I can hardly recall doing much with them.
I know my Dad used to rake them up and burn them in an incinerator we had. It looked like a dustbin with a hat on. Smoke billowed out of it especially when more leaves were added.
It can't have been great for the environment though although I did love the small and look of the autumn fires. Nowadays me and Missus Moonbase rake it up and put it all in the green bin around February time. It does take a few months worth of bin collections to shift it all.
As I kid I did dry leaves. It was fun placing them between sheets of newspaper and flattening them in the process. They could then be stuck into scrapbooks and maybe labelled.
I also enjoyed placing them dried onto a table and scattering a few spiky horse chestnuts on too. Maybe even an old wasps nest and a skull. I called it my nature table and was a sign of things to come for me later in life at work.
Action Man may have had adventures in the leaf litter too but its shrouded in a Palitoy mist!
Did you make use of Autumn leaves readers and what do you do now?
Is this unusual weather for your area?Two storms in one week seems excessive.one good thing might be that the leave all come down at once, then leaf detail is done.I make mulch of them with my Lawnmower.Take care-Brian(the reader,not the storm)
ReplyDeleteha ha! the reader not the storm. I like that! I'm the reader on the storm, that famous Doors song. Its blowin' a gale here. No, its not usual to have two storms in a week I don't think although things are reported much more often now. And the storms are named for handy reference! Last weekend I had to drag my Wife out of a bog she got trapped in on a country walk we managed in between storms. we laugh now but at the time it was quite hairy as we were in a field full of cows too. Typical, we tried to avoid them and stepped across a stream and boom! The Missus sank! It was a hidden stream where the ground was like butter!
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