Ahhh the springtime ritual. Trim back all the pointy, sticker-laden things around the pool, vackum up everything the trees have shed on the cool deck.
The good news is: everything worked the way it was supposed to. The bad news: because of my lifelong philosophy of Ready, Fire!!, Aim, it took about twice as long as necessary and involved some extra steps.
After collecting all the effluvia in a nice pile, I picked up my Toro Extra Suck and shoved its snout into the pile. FaWOOOP as most of the pile was expelled out into the middle of the pool through the unzipped-up bag. Sigh. You'd a thunk I'd a remembered from last year. Some of the stuff made it all the way to the other side of the pool, so I drag the TES around to - SNAP POP. Oh yeah, don't drag the old, chewed up extension cord through the water.
My brother and some other similarly misguided folk actually look forward to their yard work. I'll bet their tasks rarely end up being as interesting, even exciting, as my forays into the nether world of suburbia.
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The leaf sucker works EXACTLY like the TES. Similar reaction when the carefully raked pile of leaves ends up all over the yard in millions of smaller pieces. At least you have a pool!
In many ways I'm glad that you chose to do this yearly when I'm not at home. I don't think my heart could take the snap pop and the words coming from the back yard!!! I can picture it perfectly without even being there. Love you. Glad you survived another year of yard work!!!
Funny what characteristics seem to be genetic.
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