Catching up here. Spent 2-1/2 hours outside helping DH with leaves. It was 39 degrees outside and that is not my favorite temperature for working, however, I'm afraid we aren't going to get any more warm weather.
Rain the last week and a half so we had to wait for the leaves to dry out. DH sucks the leaves up and puts them in a large barrel and I schlep the barrel down to our leaf pile. I pick up sticks and haul them down to another pile to be chipped.