[Boog]

I always go over the yard before I begin the mowing season. So I spent a couple hours in the yard picking up debri that has accumulated over the winter months, especially with all the winds we've had lately. In particular is our black gum tree that is a "self pruner" it seems. I pick up small limbs every week before I can mow. It's a huge old tree and as limbs die they fall. It doesn't produce gum balls, just small limbs. But when leaf'd out it has a pretty shape. And behind it there are the line of pine trees on the property line of our neighbor. They're his and he doesn't care for them. He did come out with a big vaccum behind his john deere mower AFTER I spent all that time picking up mine. Pine cones and pine needles blanket the ground. When he gets done they are piled up like a row of VWs.