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‘Twas a beautiful day … perhaps the last beautiful day of the year. I knew I had to take advantage of it, so I embarked on a mow-n’-rake. Took about two hours or so, but I got about 90% of the leaves. It felt good getting it accomplished.
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But one look up into our trees afterward was almost enough to quash that feeling of joy. There are bags of leaves yet to fall.