The War of the Acorns

For about 3 plus weeks we had a giant acorn storm. The tree out front, the one we now call "the stupid acorn tree" dropped a butt load of acorns on our house. There were periods at night where is sounded like machine guns were going of. When they hit the tin roof over the front porch visitors and neighbors thought we were victims of a drive by. How did we sleep through that? Don't even get me started!

Aside from being flat out agitating to listen to -- those little acorns proved to be nearly impossible to get up out of the yard. Eric tried the rake, the yard vac and the lawn mower. Each one proved to be either useless (yard vac & lawn mower) or too time consuming to bother with (rake). We did hire a friend to rake them up for $130 - which was fine - but high winds the next day ate up our $130 and spit it back in our face, along with thousands and thousands of stupid little acorns.

One day I mildly suggested using the shop vac. It was kind of a joke but then again -- why not? We used our shop vac to suck up water when the condo flooded. We used it to suck up dry wall bits, huge nails, chunks of hard wood floor --lots and lots of stuff ....why not acorns? Why not vacuum the yard? So off Eric went -- vacuuming up acorns for an afternoon. Did he look dumb? Absolutely. Did he feel stupid? Sorta. Did it work? You bet your ass it did!