[MD] Suicide vs. Solutions

[MarshaV]

At 12:18 AM 11/23/2006, you wrote:


>      oooh, so the leaves are falling on areas that are
>used by people to sit upon and walk upon.  That's
>understandable.  Where I live, I sweep the sidewalk,
>but I don't rake the rest of the yard.  I just let it
>be woods.  I was curious as I see some people raking
>or cutting grass in areas that just seem to be so out
>of the way and curious as to why would they rake or
>cut there?  It just seems to be more work that the
>time could be spent for other things, like maybe
>walking in the woods or discussing on the MoQ... ha,
>ha, ha.  :-)  I know some people that cut grass so far
>out of the way that nobody sees where they cut, woods
>are all around, and if they didn't cut it would just
>be more woods, but they see grass gettin' long and so
>they cut.  The neighbor has large patch of ferns in
>one part of his yard and cuts them with the lawn
>mower.  It's not even grass it's just ferns, but he
>cuts it.  Hey, if he wants to that's his yard.  I just
>don't know why he spends time pushing the woods back
>off his yard.  It just seems like more unnecessary
>work, but anyways...

I like being on the lake, yet among the trees.  But some people like 
the wide open spaces.  They want to see sky to the horizon.  I've 
enjoyed that too.  Been thinking of the mountains lately.


>    Raking is the easy part, carrying
> > the leaves up to
> > the road is a bit more challenging.  Independence
> > has its
> > price.  Sometimes that price seems very high.
>
>      How many bags approximately?
>
>

Let's see.  The work started in September with a bumper crop of 
acorns, and a storm last week left the trees completely bare.   Many, 
many, many bags.   This year it was more enjoyable than ever 
before.  It wasn't gumption as much as it was surrender.

Now I'm looking forward to the snow.  I like to shovel the snow in 
the middle of the night.  I plug into some music and dance my way 
through it.  It's quite splendid to be in a snowstorm or surrounded 
by moonlit snow.  Maybe listening to Gordon Lightfoot or John 
Williams.  I'll set my ipod to shuffle, and just shovel.

Marsha