The title is a leaf blower joke. Well, the wind making machine has been returned. My wrists hurt. I concede this year to Mother Nature but I put a hurt on her this time. She knows next year I have a new trick. The tide of this war is changing! The children enjoyed pouncing into the piles of leaves. The yard looks more like a yard than it has in over a decade. That feels good. The driveway received a major cleaning too.