[RKDinOKC]

Snow ain't so bad, at least it eventually melts and goes away. There is something I find much worse...LEAVES!!!

The leaves, they are everywhere, millions of them! Under and around and in the plants and flower beds. They don't melt and you can't burn them (legally). Nooo, you have to rake them up, bag them, and put them out to the curb. And do they go willingly? NO, thy clog up the rake and you have keep picking the ones that get skewered off the rake tines. Those smelly, rustling, leftovers of summer are worse than white fluffy, quiet snow.

Oh they try to make leaves look like fun showing people diving into big piles of them. All acting like that pile of leaves is as much fun as a ball pit. But do you know how much WORK it is to rake all those leaves into that big pile in the first place? And if there's any wind at all, just forget it. Not only does the wind unpile your leaves, it seems to bring more from God knows where. And then theres the cold wet leaves hiding just under dry ones. All wet and smelly, sticking together making the pile totally unacceptable for jumping into. And you do know the dogs peed and pooped on those leaves, don't you. I ain't jumping into that pile, no way. Fun? I think not.

Nope, I'll take snow over leaves...at least until the first snow I have to shovel off the drive and sidewalk.