Is it Fall yet?

So, yesterday I was rakeing the leaves from my front lawn and it got me thinking.....What is the point?  There are still, like, a half a dozen trees in my neighborhood that still have not finishing dropping their leaves.  I am doing all this hard work for nothing.  And there really wasn't a point because there are still leaves everywhere.  As I am rakeing up the leaves more just kept falling on the area I just cleaned.  I thought about throwing down the rake and just giving up.  Then of course my daughter started to whine about the leaf-pile I promised to make her.  So I continued to rake up the freaking leaves.  She provided her "expert assistance" as only children can.  This is also known as getting in my way as much as possible and hindering me.  But eventually I got it all done and we had a reasonably good size leaf-pile.  It was only about two feet high but hey, it made the kid happy.  She spent a good hour jumping in and having me re-rake it so she can dive in again.  But it worked for her and it was a nice bit of exersice for me