[Eala]

Homework: Those of us who live in the woods, repine for the easy life of spring and summer since, in the month past, we don't have to rake those tens of millions of D**N pine needles and hardwood leaves every fall!

Add cedar fronds -- the raking is (sort of) okay, but cleaning second-story gutters is not a fun task:

[Robert A Cook PE]

Concur!

The pines grow so fast here that (if the gutters aren't cleaned twice a year) by the next spring you have little bitty 4" trees growing in the downspouts.

(Don't ask me how I found that out....)

Meek doesn't have to worry about that: only about picking up ten billion stringy mesquite beans.