Our city pushes our leaf and waste piles out into the street and hauls them off, bags are optional but okay.

What I have noticed is the city's website telling us pickup deadlines in spring and fall for yard waste and leaves tend to be sketchy, if you are not ready for the pickup when they appear you may be screwed cause they don't promise a 3rd pickup in Dec. only if the weather holds.

The latest tell is the city trying to figure out what to do with their big-ass hole in the city budget, universally known and blamed on covid-19. If you want to make a trip to a city drop off site (few of them, like 2 that work) because you have too much yard waste or leaves, there's that. In the past 2 years there has been cutbacks in services, like getting in line queues and cluster-mucks with everyone and their vehicles, hours have been cut back, plus you need the proverbial sticker to get into these places. It's like trying to do your business in an Amtrack or Airline can, by design.

It's like the city is trying to tell us, yes we promised all these services but we somehow forgot the rainy day budget part of the equation, (and possibly really don't want your leafy yard waste, but we aren't telling you that now) . But no worries, next years taxes will fill up some of their unplanned holes, because we are paying for the real estate industry flipping houses at ridiculously high prices so they can cash in big time, or downscale selected neighborhoods for gentrifying for later flip sales, thank you Zillow and other land speculators. Did I mention we are a high property tax state? That's right magical assessments galore!

Anyway, we all are paying the shortfall with creative budgeting games. Yeah, right now we are in full leaf swing at our latitude. Major benefit, get out of the house for some fresh air sans leaf blowers.

This has been a 1st world citizen rant, have a nice rest of your day. :-) 🍂🍂🍂...wakie wakie time to rakie.