Who Knew What a Garbage Bag Could Do?

On Saturday the weather was amazing, and we were very grateful because we had done hardly any yard work all throughout fall season.  There was much to do to get ready for winter around the yard, so after lunch Mr. TOF went down for a nap and we put our slave labor force to work raking leaves and bagging leaves to insulate newly planted bushes.  The leftover leaves they hauled across the street to our neighbor who loves to have leaves for mulch in his garden.  We didn’t need the yard perfectly raked.  Our goal was just to get the big piles of leaves off the grass.  The kidlets spent lots of time grumbling and groaning that we were making them “pick up every last crumb off the yard” but actually, we didn’t even make them rake a big portion of the ground.

Regardless, after a few hours of raking they were really, really glad to have the task completed, and they begged to have one garbage bag for each person to play with.  We thought that was reasonable.  They found so many uses for black plastic garbage bags and had so much fun playing that it was almost mind boggling to me.  Although it shouldn’t have been, since the power of a working imagination is always something to behold.  They hopped in the bags.  They rolled around on the bags.  They turned the bags into inflatable super hero capes.  They build flags.  They built kites.  They spun around with the bags and ran with the bags and dressed up like medieval princess and pretended they were flying in hot air balloons.  It was quite an afternoon.