Raking Leaves Rochester Style

 Raking leaves here in Rochester is not an easy job.  It takes an army to handle all the leaves in our backyard.  We borrowed the neighbor's leaf blower a few times which makes things so much easier.  To rake leaves "Rochester style", you have to rake/blow/sweep the leaves into the tarp and then carry the tarp to the front and dump them by the side of the road.  The city has certain leaf days where they come and scoop up all of the leaves.  It took multiples times of filling up the big blue tarp to actually make a dent and just when we thought we got them all, there were more leaves.  One raking day, Lee and Tommy had a very wet bunch of leaves.  This caused Lee to have to put on his cleats so he could get enough traction to drag the heavy tarp to the front.