The First of Many…

Acorns and leaves that is.

If fall is my favorite season, I am less enchanted every year with the amount of acorns and leaves that fall from my oak trees!  As oak trees are a protected species where I live, meaning that I can’t cut them down, no one ever warns you about the yearly duty of raking.

And the law certainly doesn’t intervene to help in that task.

Thus it was when I returned from the mountains this morning and had had lunch up at the border the sun had broken through the fog and with it I could see more clearly the already accumulated acorns and leaves.  Having not had my walk, I decided that I really shouldn’t ignore it so got busy and temporarily have a clean walkway and driveway: very temporarily as within a couple of minutes the latest acorn and leaf will have already descended to be followed by many, many more before I am through this year.

Where are the squirrels when you need them?

Hmmm… wonder if my cats could be taught to eat acorns?

Send in the squirrels

Or the pigs, or anything and everything that might be tempted by acorns. To re-paraphrase

A well-known remark: give me your hungry, your poor, those longing to be FED.

This year we have: not only dozens, nor even hundreds, nor are we so lucky as to have only thousands: I’d swear that it is in the hundreds of thousands!

And if you have no squirrels or pigs to lend, I would suggest some handy crafting projects:

Any shape or form of pad for hot pots and plates; a throw rug of strung together acorns; a wall hanging; a “rug” for after the sauna; a curtain for next summer’s flies, your imagination is the only limit as I have a supply that would allow for any and all such projects.

Or a few to plant in planters so that you can grow your own lovely oak trees!

no pictures were retouched: this is actually how many there are!