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And this other is the after.

Yesterday I looked out at our vast sea of leaves and wondered if the city came around and gathered the leaves that we rake. So I was going to call today and see what the schedule was and we would rake tomorrow. Well Terry came home and said, "Did you call them? They are at the end of the street!" So we went outside and began raking. Boy was there a lot of leaves. The before does no justice to really how many leaves there were. I was going to take a picture of the pile, but they pulled up in front of our house with this BIG vaccuum and started taking care of all the leaves. There was a couple of guys that helped Terry over by the mail box and Nephi and I had this HUGE bag from the pellets that we were loading about 7 loads of leaves in from the back yard, and that was only from 3 trees. Oh my goodness, it would have been insane if there was more trees. And as it happened when we were up on the roof shoveling snow back in February, Nicole was at work and missed the whole thing! I guess this is just me getting ready for her not being here. But we really could have used her help!