Leaf compost is the best stuff. I’ll be doing some raking soon enough, too! :)
Nice to hear about the Fox - we have them around once in a great while. Coyotes? Almost always, but they don’t come near the house due to all the dogs we have. They put on some beautiful ‘concerts’ but I’m not sure why they need to do it at 2am! ;)
When I was mowing the upper part of the front pasture last evening (where my garden is located - I did the lower half last Friday), I was seeing huge clouds of smoke from behind my brother’s house. Either the house was on fire, or he had something in the smoker. As I mowed, I would hit a wafting breeze ... that smelled like a BBQ restaurant that has the smoker going in the back. Turns out, he was smoking ‘wings’ & then he/SIL had their fire pit going.
This morning, I was on the back deck frying bacon - mom didn’t want the house smelling like bacon for the company that will be here for lunch. My SIL is babysitting her grandson today & she told me that they could smell the bacon frying at her house across the pasture! I’m kind of surprised (ha ha) that I didn’t end up with a raccoon, fox & coyote at the back deck, attracted by the bacon aroma!
We have tons of leaves but they are almost all oak leaves. Too acidic.