…in mud, when we took the trailer-full of leaves and tomato vines to the Whitewater compost site. I would have taken a photo there except I try not to post scary pictures on this blog. (One would think that the City could afford a load of gravel since, unlike every other town, it provides no curbside leaf vacuum service.)

In addition to that grisly task we dropped off an extraordinarily heavy dresser at Goodwill in Janesville, bought a bag of PEI mussels at the J’ville Festival store, got flu shots at Walgreens back in W’water, and then, to top things off, cleaned the east side gutters—which were packed solid with pine needles, oak and birch leaves, snow, and ice. Painfully cold even changing gloves every few minutes.