The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for February 12, 2024

As does everyone else within audible range.

Help! Help! Giant alien spiders is attack!

We have a giant Eastern Pine over hanging our driveway and, annually, it drops a thick carpet of needles on it. My love for our leaf blower is unbounded then! BTW, we blow into piles that go into bags. We don’t blow onto neighbours or into the road.

Most people do. They’re too noisy!

Leaf blowers are the lazy person’s rake & broom. I never see anyone pick stuff up, especially lawn services. They just blow it around.

me too

Better than weed eater!

They’re noisy and they stink to high heaven.

I call them “dust blowers”. I SAID “I CALL THEM DUST BLOWERS!”

Most evil and useless item ever created! Get a rake for heavens sake. I can rake the leaves up and mulch them with the lawnmower twice as fast as some moron can move them around with a leaf blower. They should be outlawed!

Bees, and their eggs, as well as other insects and little critters winter under leaf litter.

Leaf blowers, snow blowers, lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, jack hammers; especially on Saturday morning when I’m trying to sleep in.