they make great insulation...
especially if you bag them
and put them against the north side
of a building... or a drafty cellar window.
if you need them raked up .....just make
wind rows narrow for the mower to shred them.
(: yank that mower blade off and sharpen it like
a knife... before hand tho, so you make
good
small confetti... and it'll blow around in fall.
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