Good morning Tony, (Mr Gadget) your new nickname...LOL

I think the difference with my backyard and yours is that mine is 3 times the size of yours so I have more area for the leaves to blow...LOL I have a half acre in the back and yes I have 2 big maples, lots of cedars and one huge Spruce, not to mention flowering bushes etc....and that is back there, in the front, I get all the leaves from my neighbour's two maples. That is where I get the leaves to protect the plants in the front. Only thing now with the pyramid cedars in the front growing so big, I soon won't have an area for the leaves to blow through but it will sure act as a sound barrier from the heavy road traffic we get here. Lots of shade in the summer too. I get all the afternoon sun so they will help to cool the area down some. Anything to help curtail the high cost of summer AC.

Anyway time to enjoy my first cup of coffee so have yourselves a great Sunday. Glad you got out for dinner. One of these day's I will treat myself too but for now I am pretty well housebound.
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