Time to rake the leaves

Another view from my second floor window. That's the pond in the foreground and all of those brown things lying around are the oak leaves from the beautiful tall oak trees in my back yard. Usually I wait as long as possible before raking because I live on a hill and if the leaves dry up enough then the wind will just blown them away. Also because my standards of lawn care are so low at this point that it hardly seems worth the effort. Today I took a burnt out light out of the recessed socket in my bathroom and it came out with part of a dead mouse stuck to it. I guess the mouse fried itself or burnt itself to death, not pretty. The rest of the mouse is still in the ceiling, I should fish it out but I'm really not looking forward to that, maybe it will just dry up and crumble to nothing but mousey bones. I guess mice coming inside is another aspect of fall, one that the cat is really enjoying, but not me so much.