My Damn Leaves

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I will gladly gratefully adoringly pay someone $50 to come rake my leaves. Technically they're not my leaves, they're my landlord's leaves, but he lives in CA and we have an arrangement that I do that sort of chore for reduced rent. But this week there's no possible way I'll have time, and I've got to get them out of here.

It's the standard-issue Ball Square yard, front yard the size of two small conference tables, back yard the size of a master bedroom, and a drift of leaves in the corner of the driveway. It's about 15 or 20 of those paper lawn bags-ful, which I'll provide along with rake(s). It doesn't need to be pristinely leaf-free, just unburied so it looks like someone actually lives here.

If you or someone you know likes yardwork and cash, I'm at moonstonewater at yahoo dot com, or just answer here. Thank ye!

Comments

[ellf.livejournal.com]

When are you looking to have these raked? Today?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I haven't bought the bags yet (will do so after my show today) so today unfortunately wouldn't work (too bad cuz it's beautiful.) Basically anytime someone can show up -- I can put the bags and rakes outside the garage. Maybe I can pay beforehand, on the honor system, since I will hardly be home at all this week.

[ellf.livejournal.com]

Alas. I don't care about the money, but I'd have liked to have gotten outside and done some yard work today. Unfortunately, I have a job in the tech sector, so I'm in a cubicle for the rest of the week.

I'm sure someone else will volunteer. :)

[la-ti-da.livejournal.com]

ditto :)

[srl.livejournal.com]

Get in touch with the Homeless Empowerment Project, the folks who run Spare Change News. They'll hook you up with someone who needs $50 and is willing to work.

[ayalanya.livejournal.com]

i'd love to do this, as long as i don't need a car to get to you. i'll be free tomorrow and tuesday, this week, and a few days late next week.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Hey, I have a request, if possible -- I could use two or three large bags of *dry* leaves, so if you could hold off on dumping all of them, that'd be great. (I'll tell you my seekrit plans later. :)

[solnishka.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I'm very interested (email larissa@bmak.org if you want me to do it. I can come rake tonight (monday) or tomorrow night. :-)

[turil.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could talk your landlord into letting the place be a little more natural? Leaves are great compost for the soil, really makes the earth rich in nutrients, and gives the little critters, like squirrels, a place to hide their winter stash of acorns and seeds and such.

Though I know all too well how some landlords are apparently terrified of nature... My last landlord was crazy and ripped out all of the plant life in the yard when I moved out. I went back to pick up some mail and the yard was one big leveled plane of dirt. All the beautiful berry bushes, pumpkins!, ferns, and tons of flowers and herbs, as well as the grass had been ripped out and thrown away. Some people are just weird.