Beware of the Bags!

I feel crabby today..I could blame the weather...the lack of sunshine or the cold...but I'm going to blame those darn bags! I think it's their fault.

They're beginning to pop up here and there...I know you've seen them. I'm talking about those orange Jack-o-lantern leaf bags. People start filling those things with leaves from their yards this time of year.

I think they may have been created by a dad who wanted more help from his kids and thought it would be a good way to involve them. (Hey, kids...if you're reading this...it's just like bagging leaves into regular garbage bags...except these are orange. So don't fall for it!)

I've just never liked them...never bought them...never used them...and I wish they'd go away...completely! Whatever happened to raking leaves into huge piles and jumping in them or hiding in them? Or what about raking leaves together and setting them on fire. While they burn you can roast marshmallows. Mmmmmm....nothing better on a cool fall day than smoked marshmallows!

People normally line up these orange bags in a row by their houses and leave them there until spring! Sooner or later the color fades, the bags rip open and remnants of orange plastic start blowing around the neighborhood. "Hey, kids, let's go out and re-rake the deteriorating leaf fungus that is falling out of our faded, wind-shredded leaf bags. It'll be fun!"

With Halloween only a week away and the leaves too wet to rake, maybe there won't be as many of the baggies showing up. I can only hope!