Yesterday was a blustery day, the kind of day that if Christopher Robin handed Piglet the kite string, both Piglet and kite were going to end up soaring over the horizon. Given the large number of trees we have around here, that meant there were an infinite number of leaves, figuratively speaking, blowing around at any given moment.
That made it all the more unexpected for me to witness one of my neighbors out in the wind with a leaf blower making a futile effort to keep the leaves off his property.
Now this was a little bit funny and a whole lot sad to me because I can’t think of too many reasons why a person in full possession of their mental faculties would be doing such a thing, but I had to admire the tragic nobility of it all.