Rake the Leaves save the good ones

The LSW and I spent about 50 minutes yesterday raking up some of the leaves (see prior post) in our backyard, bagging some, dumping some under the tall pines, and then she found two or three that had lost much of their green color leaving a fine tracery of yellowish gold and took them into the house placing them under the glass desptop, VERY effective as a fall decoration. I'm glad all the rest of the devils remained outside as it would be extremely messy to have a half-acre of leaves from our very heavily wooded lot inside. I never truly counted, but we ourselves have planted over a dozen trees since we bought and built on this lot 11 years ago ==I think there are nearly 50 trees. Pine needles are harder to rake than deciduous trees leavings, but mowing short after most fall helps.
Had only 13 (scarey number!!!!) Tricky Treaters this year. A lot of the kids in our neighborhood are getting past that and I sort of miss seeing them, but life goes on. We also missed seeing the Great Pumpkin rise out of the patch to bring toys to all the good children. Sorry, Mr. Schulz..