leaving

much of thanksgiving weekend, when not spent eating "feast" (as jack decided to call our thursday night repast and every leftover meal thereafter), was dedicated to doing a lot of work around the house ... not the least of which was raking up the remaining leaves for our final county leaf collection.

of course our resident "helper" was standing by to help daddy. sadly, his little rake from last season had broken, so he and mommy made an emergency trip to the hardware store for a new one.



and then ... the hijinks (err -- helping) began ...

i guess jack should have mentioned in his list that he was thankful for leaves ... and rakes.