You Can't Just "Blow" it Away, You Have to "Suck" it Up!
I seem to be focusing on "leaf blowers" this past month! Thank goodness for the snow yesterday as this will keep the "blowers" from irritating us all! I wanted to discuss how "blowing" your yard waste around is kind of like how we don't handle issues in life and just keep pushing it around and around. So...here it goes. I constantly hear the sound of a leaf blower in my neighborhood and around town during my travels. I notice how the operator just blows the clippings, leaves and other items out in the street, the neighbor's lawn, or whatever seems convenient. Why don't the operators use the vacuum option and just "suck" up the waste and discard it? I know there are those two options on these "leaf blowing" tools. That is how we often approach our "trash" or issues in life. We tend to just blow them around and expect everyone else to deal with it or clean it up for us. It doesn't work as illustrated b...