I had to come inside as the noise was getting to me. I seem to have moved to a street where leaves are evil. All around me on this gorgeous fall Saturday, neighbors are out with their leaf blowers and their newest acquisitions, leaf vacuums. First, they blow all the leaves into piles and then use the vacuums to suck them into a bag to be thrown away like trash. The silly thing is that this blowing and vacuuming goes on sometimes daily because it takes weeks for all the leaves to drop. Going to look for my ear plugs so I can go outside again...